dapple
suomi-englanti sanakirjadapple englannista suomeksi
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täplä
dapple englanniksi
A mottled marking, usually in clusters.
1800, Samuel Taylor Coleridge tr., Friedrich von Schiller, ''The Death of Wallenstein,'' http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=ISBN1419158775&id=bXOEL5RL6DsC&pg=PA64&lpg=PA64&sig=9x8UPZTbcIMkCOkMCSHT1YEwX9M 2004
- “My brother,” said he, “do not ride to–day / The dapple, as you’re wont; but mount the horse / Which I have chosen for thee.
(quote-book)
2004, D Caroline Coile, http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=ISBN0764126733&id=vmTgPakg8nUC&pg=PA21&lpg=PA21&sig=5r0UWTYWxGcZayQlGiP4v3b1ajU
- Some well-intentioned breeders inadvertently breed two dapples together because occasionally a dapple will have so few patches of mottled coloration it appears undappled.
(RQ:Scott Guy Mannering)
{{quote-text|en|year=1984|author=Dan Parkinson|title=Gunpowder Glory|page=103
To mark or become marked with mottling or spots.
(RQ:Ward Simple Cobler)