The Collaborative International Dictionary
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
n. A dappled pattern. vb. (present participle of dapple English)
Usage examples of "dappling".
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.
We flung ourselves down in dappling birch shade, fed again from our kills, and drowsed off.
He suited his actions to his thought, sprawling in the dappling shade of the birches while staring at the chickens intently.
When I saw Verity's turquoise hide gleaming in the dappling summer shade, Nighteyes sat down and curled his tail tidily around his forefeet.
Their coats were tawny, but in certain angles of the light, subdued dappling could be distinguished.
Buck blue he gleamed in the dappling sunlight after I had polished the length of he who had been my king.
A brief Wit-quest found a satiated wolf drowsing in the dappling sunlight between two big roots of an oak tree.
She still had traces of her kitten spots dappling her quarters, but the night they swam the Usutu, she came into season for the first time.
There was a pale blue dappling of active veins deep below the skin, and the nipples were'the colour of almost ripe mulberries, with the same rough shiny texture.
And here were the signs of it, the dappling of post-holes, the pallid oblongs of the stalls, the green fringes, and the trampled, bald paths between the booths.
Downstream from here the dull mirrors of water dappling the far meadows had been fed, since the storm, by two nights of gentler rain, and once filled could not drain away, they could only dry up slowly.
It rolled on its side, legs kicking up a spray of slurried mud, blood jetting from its shattered skull, shards of bone dappling the ground.
Their leader stammered, face pale, spots of hectic colour dappling his hollow cheeks.
Their hairless bodies showed signs of running to fat, with a number of deep purple, weeping sores dappling them, but their jowled faces were wreathed in eager, anticipatory leering grins, and they were flexing their massive hands as they both dropped into a half crouch.
It was a gorgeous morning, with the sunlight slanting bright and golden through the trees, dappling the water.