dappled
 (a.)斑紋的,花的


 Dap·ple 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.

 ◄ ►


 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.

 ◄ ►


 dappled
      adj : having spots or patches of color [syn: mottled]