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dapplings

n. (plural of dappling English)

Usage examples of "dapplings".

This one resembled a huge cat, lionlike but scarred with lines that seemed to indicate dapplings or lesions upon its stone coat.

Some had been painted red and white while others had golden-brown dapplings and succulent green tongues, lacy black curling ears or gold-petaled flowers rayed out from their circular eyes.

There were strange dapplings, speckles, and spots which we had never noticed before.

Strange moving shadows, dapplings of faraway light, hints of blue and brown and green.

The freshness of the face at his side, reflecting the freshness of the season, suggested dapplings of sunlight through new leaves, the sound of a brook in the grass, the ripple of tree-shadows over breezy meadows.