dapple

Noun

 * 1) A mottled marking, usually in clusters.
 * 2) An animal with a mottled or spotted skin or coat.
 * 3) * 1800, Samuel Taylor Coleridge tr., Friedrich von Schiller, The Death of Wallenstein, 2004
 * “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.
 * 1) * 2004, D Caroline Coile,
 * Some well-intentioned breeders inadvertently breed two dapples together because occasionally a dapple will have so few patches of mottled coloration it appears undappled.
 * Some well-intentioned breeders inadvertently breed two dapples together because occasionally a dapple will have so few patches of mottled coloration it appears undappled.

Translations

 * Finnish:
 * Russian:


 * Finnish: ; laikukas (eläin)
 * German:
 * Spanish:, animal de piel moteada

Adjective

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

Translations

 * Arabic:
 * Bulgarian:, петнист
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * German: scheckig, sprenglich, sprenklich, sprenglig,
 * Russian:, of horses: в яблоках (v jáblokakh),
 * Spanish:, ,
 * Swedish: apelkastad

Verb

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

Translations

 * Bulgarian:, изпъстрям се
 * German:, scheckig machen
 * Russian:,  , , , , , , , ,
 * Spanish: ,