2. Verb. (third-person singular of dapple) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Dapples
1. dapple [v] - See also: dapple
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dapples
Literary usage of Dapples
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The New England Farmer by Samuel W. Cole (1854)
"The robin is one of our earliest songsters ; even in March, while snow yet dapples
the fields, some few will mount a post or stake of the fence, ..."
2. Studies in the Evolution of Animals by Emanuel Bonavia (1895)
"The white dapples of the grey Horse can be seen to vary from irregular ...
36, the smaller dapples seem to have amalgamated into large fern-like patches. ..."
3. Historic Studies in Vaud, Berne, and Savoy: From Roman Times to Voltaire by John Meredith Read (1897)
"On one of them, says an unpublished manuscript of M. Bergier in the Berne Library,
were the following Latin lines prepared by Professor dapples: Hos edo ..."
4. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Edward Cornelius Towne (1898)
"Lips that flame like scarlet wine, Eyes of azure, smile divine — " Is that you,
Selling apples Where the golden sunlight dapples, Eily Considine ? ..."
5. Ilios: The City and Country of the Trojans: the Results of Researches and by Heinrich Schliemann (1880)
"... chickling-vetch; white, with more or less rust-coloured dapples (in German,
... but the rust-brown dapples (in German, ..."
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