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Dap·ple Dap·pled, a. Marked with spots of different shades of color; spotted; variegated; as, a dapple horse.
Some dapple mists still floated along the peaks. --Sir W. Scott.
Note: ☞ The word is used in composition to denote that some color is variegated or marked with spots; as, dapple-bay; dapple-gray.
His steed was all dapple-gray. --Chaucer.
O, swiftly can speed my dapple-gray steed. --Sir W. Scott.
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Dap·ple, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dappled p. pr. & vb. n. Dappling.] To variegate with spots; to spot.
The gentle day, . . .
Dapples the drowsy east with spots of gray. --Shak.
The dappled pink and blushing rose. --Prior.
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dappled
adj : having spots or patches of color [syn: mottled]