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Meanings of dapple in English

Portuguese
mancha
Catalan
mota
Spanish
mancha

A small contrasting part of something.

        mancha

        Colour with streaks or blotches of different shades.

              Usage of dapple in English
              1
              Never put your money on dapple grey race horses or ginger-haired quarterbacks.
              Independent.ie
              2
              Her palfrey was dapple-grey and she herself shone as the summer sun.
              Stories from the Ballads, Told to the Children
              3
              I have that dapple gray Young Jeff gave me after the trial.
              Judith of the Godless Valley
              4
              Not that watching her was easy, since Selucia held the dapple between them.
              Knife of dreams
              5
              Ser Barristan was at her right, mounted on a dapple grey.
              A Dance with Dragons
              6
              Samovars and silver birches are banished: with them go dapple, murmur and lassitude.
              The Guardian
              7
              Used by Chaucer as an epithet of a gray or dapple gray horse.
              The Gutenberg Webster's Unabridged Dictionary: Section I, J, K, ...
              8
              It was you then who stole my dapple-gray horse with saddle and bridle?
              Early Plays — Catiline, the Warrior's Barrow, Olaf Liljekrans
              9
              Blood coated him, dripping from his fingers to dapple the floor.
              The bone palace
              10
              Avoid spotted, or dapple mules; they are the very poorest animal you can get.
              The Mule: A Treatise on the Breeding, Training, and Uses to Whic...
              11
              That dapple mare is as steady a horse as any you could hope for.
              The Name of the Wind
              12
              Palus was driving the dapple grays with which he had won the first race.
              Andivius Hedulio: Adventures of a Roman Nobleman in the Days of ...
              13
              He sat a sorrel stallion, his standard-bearer a dapple grey.
              A clash of kings
              14
              He had a bandage on his bicep with a dapple of blood soaking through.
              Wild Storm
              15
              Fish hide from predators with body colors that dapple like light across a rippling pond.
              Wired
              16
              He was an animal of amazing power, about sixteen hands, and dapple gray in colour.
              Richard Carvel — Volume 06
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              Portuguese
              mancha
              Spanish
              mancha
              Dapple through the time
              Dapple across language varieties
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