dapple

• POS: Adjective, Noun, Verb (usu participle)
• HYPHEN: dap=ple

OXFORD DICTIONARY

dapple, v. & n.
--v.
1 tr. mark with spots or rounded patches of colour or shade.
2 intr. become marked in this way.
--n.
1 a dappled effect.
2 a dappled animal, esp. a horse.

Idiom

dapple grey
1 (of an animal's coat) grey or white with darker spots.
2 a horse of this colour.

Etymology

ME dappled, dappeld, (adj.), of unkn. orig.

THESAURUS

dapple

Quaker-colored, acier, ashen, ashy, band, bar, bespangle, bespeckle, bespot, birthmark, blaze, blaze a trail, blemish, blotch, brand, brindled, calico, canescent, caste mark, chalk, chalk up, check, check off, checker, checkmark, cicatrix, cicatrize, cinereous, cinerous, clouded, cut, dapple-gray, dappled, dappled-gray, dappledness, dappleness, dash, define, delimit, demarcate, dingy, discolor, discoloration, dismal, dot, dotted, dottedness, dove-colored, dove-gray, dreary, dull, dusty, earmark, engrave, engraving, flake, flea-bitten, fleck, flecked, flick, freckle, freckliness, gash, glaucescent, glaucous, graving, gray, gray-black, gray-brown, gray-colored, gray-drab, gray-green, gray-spotted, gray-toned, gray-white, grayed, grayish, griseous, grizzle, grizzled, grizzly, hack, harlequin, hatch, impress, imprint, iris, iron-gray, jot, lead-gray, leaden, lentigo, line, livid, macula, maculate, maculation, macule, make a mark, marble, marbled, marbleize, mark, mark off, mark out, marking, mole, motley, mottle, mottled, mottledness, mouse-colored, mouse-gray, mousy, nevus, nick, notch, paint, patch, pearl, pearl-gray, pearly, pencil, pepper, pepper-and-salt, piebald, pied, pinto, point, pointillage, pointillism, polka dot, polychrome, polychromize, prick, print, punch, punctuate, puncture, rainbow, riddle, sad, scar, scarification, scarify, score, scotch, scratch, scratching, seal, seam, silver, silver-gray, silvered, silvery, skewbald, slate-colored, slaty, smoke-gray, smoky, sober, somber, spangle, speck, speckle, speckled, speckliness, splash, splotch, spot, spotted, spottedness, spottiness, sprinkle, stain, stamp, steel-gray, steely, stigma, stigmatize, stipple, stippledness, stippling, stone-colored, strawberry mark, streak, striate, stripe, stud, tattoo, tattoo mark, taupe, tessellate, tick, tick off, tittle, trace, underline, underscore, variegate, vein, watermark

ROGET THESAURUS

dapple

Brown

N brown, bister ocher, sepia, Vandyke brown, brown, bay, dapple, auburn, castaneous, chestnut, nut-brown, cinnamon, russet, tawny, fuscous, chocolate, maroon, foxy, tan, brunette, whitey brown, fawn-colored, snuff-colored, liver-colored, brown as a berry, brown as mahogany, brown as the oak leaves, khaki, sun-burnt, tanned.