Or would I were a little burnish'd apple For you to pluck me, gliding by so cold, While sun and shade your robe of lawn will dapple, Your robe of lawn, and your hair's spun gold.
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Dapple
/[ˈdæpəɫ]/
Synonyms for "dapple" (214 found)
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Closest matches (43)
Strong matches (64)
delimitdemarcatedingydiscolordiscolorationdismaldiversifydotdotteddottednessdove-coloreddove-graydrearydulldustyearmarkengraveengravingflakeflea-bitten
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fleckfleckedflickfrecklefrecklinessgashglaucescentglaucousgravinggraygray-blackgray-browngray-coloredgray-drabgray-greengray-spottedgray-tonedgray-whitegrayedgrayishgreygriseousgrizzlegrizzledgrizzlyhackharlequinhatchimpressimprintirisiron-grayjotlead-grayleadenlentigolinelividmaculamaculatemaculationmacule
Noun(2 words)
Related words (107)
make a markmarblemarbledmarbleizemarkmark offmark outmarkingmolemotleymottledmottlednessmouse coloredmouse-coloredmouse-graymousynevusnicknotchpaint
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patchpearlpearl-graypearlypencilpepperpepper-and-saltpiebaldpiedpintopointpointillagepointillismpolka dotpolychromepolychromizeprickprintpunchpunctuatepuncturequaker-coloredrainbowriddlesadscarscarificationscarifyscorescotchscratchscratchingsealseamsilversilver-graysilveredsilveryskewbaldslate-coloredslatysmoke-graysmokysobersomberspanglespeckspecklespeckledspecklinesssplashsplotchspottedspottednessspottinesssprinklestainstampsteel-graysteelystigmastigmatizestipplestipplednessstipplingstone-coloredstrawberry markstreakstriatestripestudtattootattoo marktaupetessellateticktick offtittletraceunderlineunderscoreveinwatermark
Verb(1 words)
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Translations
45 translations across 9 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- أَبْرَش adj (having a spotted skin or coat)
Bulgarian
4 entries- петнист adj (having a spotted skin or coat)
- пъстър adj (having a spotted skin or coat)
- изпъстрям verb (to mark with spots)
- изпъстрям се verb (to mark with spots)
Catalan
1 entries- clapejar verb (to mark with spots)
Finnish
4 entries- laikukas adj (having a spotted skin or coat)
- laikku noun (mottled marking)
- laikukas (eläin) noun (dappled animal)
- papurikko noun (dappled animal)
French
3 entries- tacheté adj (having a spotted skin or coat)
- taché adj (having a spotted skin or coat)
- tacheter verb (to mark with spots)
German
4 entries- fleckig adj (having a spotted skin or coat)
- scheckig adj (having a spotted skin or coat)
- sprenglich adj (having a spotted skin or coat)
- sprenglig adj (having a spotted skin or coat)
Russian
4 entries- в яблоках adj (having a spotted skin or coat)
- пятни́стый adj (having a spotted skin or coat)
- чуба́рый adj (having a spotted skin or coat)
- пятнистая окра́ска noun (mottled marking)
Spanish
4 entries- habado adj (having a spotted skin or coat)
- moteado adj (having a spotted skin or coat)
- tordo adj (having a spotted skin or coat)
- animal de piel moteada noun (dappled animal)
Swedish
1 entries- apelkastad adj (having a spotted skin or coat)
Sample sentences
10 total sentences available.
She then went to look into the mouse-trap, where she found six mice, all alive. She ordered Cinderella to lift the trap-door, when, giving each mouse, as it went out, a little tap with her wand, it was that moment turned into a fine horse, and the six mice made a fine set of six horses of a beautiful mouse-colored, dapple gray.
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“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.
Source: wiktionary
A Sarronnese officer whom he did not know was leading a riderless horse, a dapple.
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