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Mottle with spots
Answer for the clue "Mottle with spots ", 6 letters:
dapple
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
Having a mottled or spotted skin or coat, dappled. n. 1 A mottled marking, usually in clusters. 2 An animal with a mottled or spotted skin or coat. v To mark or become marked with mottling or spots.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 15c. (implied in past participle adjective dappled ), perhaps from a Scandinavian source akin to Old Norse depill "spot," Norwegian dape "puddle." Perhaps a back-formation from, or merger with, Middle English adjective dapple-gray "apple-gray" (late ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
verb COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES dappled sunlight (= when sunlight comes through trees ) ▪ the dappled sunlight of the forest EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ The statue was dappled with light from a stained-glass window. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Flecks ...
Usage examples of dapple.
More carpets covered the floors, and in a curtained recess, a large angareb bed was spread with golden leopard skins dappled with black rosettes.
The sun still dappled through the branches of the huge old poplars the way it always had, and the hedges of caragana and lilac and cotoneaster were just as familiar.
Thunder was his own horse, and he dearly loved the cobby dapple gray, but those beauties .
The magnified images of the newsreels from Cape Kennedy dappled the enamel walls and ceiling, transforming the darkened room into a huge cubicular screen.
The sunlight dappling through the lattice warmed the cupric tones of her hair and reflected from the bodice of her white dress to radiate her face in a diffuse glow.
In lantern light, Haik could see the silver fur was dappled with small, dim spots.
So Haik made more pots and collected more fossils, saying nothing about her theory, till Dapple arrived late in fall.
Pomegranates overlapped persimmons, peaches and cherries intertwined, a lacy forest of citrus--tangerines, lemons, grapefruits, and oranges--gradually gave way to thick meandering shrubbery, dappled with sweet-skinned kumquats and guavas that Grandsarah made into jelly each fall.
It was almost two miles, up past the tennis courts, then past the golf course, then past the bridle path sun dappled under the big tall trees and the lathery smell of the Packtrain.
I took them down to the courtyard and sat on a bench in dappled sunlight, with Nux fast asleep up against me and the children nearby.
Like the odalisque, the moon seems filled to overflowing with sweetmeats and sperm, but the haze through which it rises is emaciated, phlegm-choked, and dappled with sores that almost certainly are malignant.
She had a confused impression of endless riches of soft pastel colours, palace after palace in tints of rose and amber and pearl dyeing the waters of the canal, and dappling the shadows with broken images of their ogival window-frames and fretted loggias.
Kafka led him out into a balcony overlooking a large hall filled with well, filled with the governor, the sluglike body gleaming with moisture, dappled with oozing black matter.
The dappled swallow left the pool, The stars were blinking owre the hill, As I met amang the hawthorns green The lovely lass of Preston Mill.
Lord Afton gravely regarded the dappled apparition that stared up at him, tail twitching, and then raised his eyes to the doorway where Pippin stood.