dappled

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dap⋅pled

[dap-uh

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–adjective

having spots of a different shade, tone, or color from the background; mottled.

Origin:
1350–1400; ME, prob. < Scand; akin to ON depill spot

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dap⋅ple

[dap-uh

noun, adjective, verb, -pled, -pling.

–noun

1.	a spot or mottled marking, usually occurring in clusters.

2.	an animal with a mottled skin or coat.

–adjective

3.	dappled; spotted: a dapple horse.

–verb (used with object), verb (used without object)

4.	to mark or become marked with spots.

Origin:
1545–55; prob. back formation from dappled

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dap·ple (dāp'əl)

1. Mottled or spotted marking, as on a horse's coat.
2. An individual spot.
An animal with a mottled or spotted skin or coat.

tr.v. dap·pled, dap·pling, dap·ples
To mark or mottle with spots.

[Back-formation from dappled.]
dap'ple adj.

dap·pled (dāp'əld)

adj. Spotted; mottled.

[Middle English, probably from Old Norse depill, spot, splash, diminutive of dapi, pool.]

Word Origin & History

dapple

c.1400 (dappled), perhaps a back-formation from dapple-grey "apple-grey" (c.1386), by resemblance to the markings on an apple (cf. O.N. apalgrar "dapple-gray"), or, as it was used of gray horses with round blotches, perhaps of apples themselves.

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