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• (英国発音) IPA: [ˈdæpəɫ]
• 韻: -æpəl

名詞

dapple (plural dapples)

1. A mottled marking, usually in clusters.
2. An animal with a mottled or spotted skin or coat.
   • 1800, Samuel Taylor Coleridge tr., Friedrich von Schiller, The Death of Wallenstein, [1] 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.

   • 1996, L E Modesitt, The Order War‎:

     A Sarronnese officer whom he did not know was leading a riderless horse, a dapple.

   • 2004, D Caroline Coile, [3]

     Some well-intentioned breeders inadvertently breed two dapples together because occasionally a dapple will have so few patches of mottled coloration it appears undappled.

形容詞

dapple (comparative more dapple, superlative most dapple)

1. Having a mottled or spotted skin or coat, dappled.
   • 1815 February 24, [Walter Scott], Guy Mannering; or, The Astrologer. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and Archibald Constable and Co., […], →OCLC:

     Some dapple mists still floated along the peaks.

   • 1984, Dan Parkinson, Gunpowder Glory, page 103:

     I was on a running Morgan that could leave anything in six counties behind, and all she had was that short-hocked dapple pony.

動詞

dapple (third-person singular simple present dapples, present participle dappling, simple past and past participle dappled)

1. To mark or become marked with mottling or spots.
   • 1647, Theodore de la Guard [pseudonym; Nathaniel Ward], The Simple Cobler of Aggawam in America. […], London: […] J[ohn] D[ever] & R[obert] I[bbitson] for Stephen Bowtell, […], →OCLC, page 77:

     Jt ſeemes it is in faſhion vvith you to ſugar your papers vvith Carnation phraſes, and dapple your ſpeeches vvith nevv quodled vvords.

     A figurative use.

   • 1971, Gwen White, Antique Toys And Their Background, page 75:

     dappling black on white with uneven strokes

   • 2006, Ace Edmonds, Bands, Part 2‎:

     Kris awoke with a start. Sweat dappled his forehead, and he brushed it away.

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アナグラム

• appled, lapped, palped