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Definition of Dappling
1. dapple [v] - See also: dapple
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dappling
Literary usage of Dappling
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The New-England Magazine by Joseph Tinker Buckingham, Edwin Buckingham, Samuel Gridley Howe, John Osborne Sargent, Park Benjamin (1831)
"A heap of dense masses are dappling the long vista of glory beyond, while their
fringed edges are lighted into transparent fire by the sea of flame ..."
2. The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication by Charles Darwin (1892)
"... cubs of thé uniformly-coloured lion being spotted with dark marks on a lighter
ground—we may suspect that the dappling of the horse, which has been 42. ..."
3. Studies in the Evolution of Animals by Emanuel Bonavia (1895)
"I am informed that the dappling, when it does come, begins to appear when the
foal is a few years old. This is rather curious, for in the case of some Deer ..."
4. The Penycuik Experiments by James Cossar Ewart (1899)
"When dappling co-exists with more or less distinct stripes it is at once evident
from the relation of the dappling to the stripes that the one has not been ..."
5. The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin (1896)
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i the colours of horses. I have seen dappling of horses; and likewise in ..."
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