Dapple
WordNet
noun
(1) A small contrasting part of something
"A bald spot"
"A leopard's spots"
"A patch of clouds"
"Patches of thin ice"
"A fleck of red"
verb
(2) Colour with streaks or blotches of different shades
WiktionaryText
Noun
Quotations
- [1800] 2004, Samuel Taylor Coleridge tr. Friedrich von Schiller, The Death of Wallenstein, http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=ISBN1419158775&id=bXOEL5RL6DsC&pg=PA64&lpg=PA64&sig=9x8UPZTbcIMkCOkMCSHT1YEwX9M
- “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 http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=ISBN0812534042&id=K4n7-n83mkoC&pg=PA141&lpg=PA141&sig=6jDsciCT-04_Oi5gjrhFItbDCt0
- A Sarronnese officer whom he did not know was leading a riderless horse, a dapple.
- 2004, D Caroline Coile, http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=ISBN0764126733&id=vmTgPakg8nUC&pg=PA21&lpg=PA21&sig=5r0UWTYWxGcZayQlGiP4v3b1ajU
- Some well-intentioned breeders inadverently breed two dapples together because occasionally a dapple will have so few patches of mottled coloration it appears undappled.
Quotations
- 2006, Ace Edmonds, Bands, Part 2 http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/26085436/
- Kris awoke with a start. Sweat dappled his forehead, and he brushed it away.