Dapple

From Fresh Dictionary

Contents 1 English 1.1 Noun 1.1.1 Translations 1.1.2 Quotations 1.2 Adjective 1.2.1 Translations 1.3 Verb 1.3.1 Translations

English

Noun

dapple

1. A mottled marking, usually in clusters.
2. An animal with a mottled or spotted skin or coat.

Translations

dappled animal

Spanish: tordo, animal de piel moteada

Quotations

• [1800] 2004, Samuel Taylor Coleridge tr. Friedrich von Schiller, The Death of Wallenstein, [1]

  “My brother,” said he, “do not ride to–day

  The dapple, as you’re wont; but mount the horse

  Which I have chosen for thee.

• 1996, L E Modesitt, The Order War [2]

  A Sarronnese officer whom he did not know was leading a riderless horse, a dapple.

• 2004, D Caroline Coile, [3]

  Some well-intentioned breeders inadverently breed two dapples together because occasionally a dapple will have so few patches of mottled coloration it appears undappled.

Adjective

dapple

1. Having a mottled or spotted skin or coat, dappled.

Translations

Russian: пятнистый (pjatnístyj), of horses: в ÑÐ±Ð»Ð¾ÐºÐ°Ñ (v jáblokakh), чубарый (čubáryj) Spanish: tordo, moteado, habado

Verb

dapple

1. To mark or become marked with mottling or spots.

Translations

Spanish: motear, salpicar