Crossword clues for dappled
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dapple \Dap"ple\, Dappled \Dap"pled\, a. Marked with spots of different shades of color; spotted; variegated; as, a dapple horse.
Some dapple mists still floated along the peaks.
--Sir
W. Scott.
Note: The word is used in composition to denote that some color is variegated or marked with spots; as, dapple-bay; dapple-gray.
His steed was all dapple-gray.
--Chaucer.
O, swiftly can speed my dapple-gray steed.
--Sir
W. Scott.
Dapple \Dap"ple\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dappled; p. pr. & vb. n. Dappling.] To variegate with spots; to spot.
The gentle day, . . .
Dapples the drowsy east with spots of gray.
--Shak.
The dappled pink and blushing rose.
--Prior.
Wiktionary
Having a mottled or spotted skin or coat, dapple. v
(en-past of: dapple)
WordNet
adj. having spots or patches of color [syn: mottled]
Usage examples of "dappled".
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.
The magnified images of the newsreels from Cape Kennedy dappled the enamel walls and ceiling, transforming the darkened room into a huge cubicular screen.
In lantern light, Haik could see the silver fur was dappled with small, dim spots.
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.
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.
I jogged across the weirdly dappled lawn, barely ahead of her, my every breath aching in my sides, my feet protesting such ungenteel exertion.
I turned off the ignition and walked across the yard, through the dappled shade and the unraked leaves that had pooled in rain puddles and dried in serpentine lines.
Mysterious forms whidded among the trees, as fluid as the shadows of birds in flight, flickering palely when sunlight dappled them.
By alder copses sliding slow, Knee-deep in flowers came gentler Yeo And paused awhile her locks to twine With musky hops and white woodbine, Then joined the silver-footed band, Which circled down my golden sand, By dappled park, and harbor shady, Haunt of love-lorn knight and lady, My thrice-renowned sons to greet, With rustic song and pageant meet.