dapple

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For earth | her being has unbound, her dapple is at an end, as- tray or aswarm, all throughther, in throngs; | self ín self steepčd and pashed--qúite Disremembering, dísmembering | ŕll now.

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  1. noun Mottled or spotted marking, as on a horse's coat.
  2. noun An individual spot.
  3. noun An animal with a mottled or spotted skin or coat.
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  • For earth | her being has unbound, her dapple is at an end, as- tray or aswarm, all throughther, in throngs; | self ín self steepčd and pashed--qúite Disremembering, dísmembering | ŕll now. —  Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins Now First Published
  • As Sancho had well observed, he rode upon a gray ass, which Don Quixote as easily took for a dapple-gray steed, as he took the barber for a knight, and his brass basin for a golden helmet; his distracted brain easily applying every object to his romantic ideas. —  The Children's Hour, v 5. Stories From Seven Old Favorites
  • You will laugh at the value I put on my Dapple--for dapple is the colour of my beast. —  Don Quixote
  • You will laugh at the value I put on my Dapple -- for dapple is the colour of my beast. —  Don Quixote
  • The dapple, as you're wont; but mount the horse —  The Death of Wallenstein
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Back-formation from dappled.

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  1. from Middle English *dappel, *dappul (in comp. dappul-gray: see dapple-gray), a spot, from Icelandic depill (for *dapill), a spot, a dot (hence depill, a dog with spots over his eyes) (= Norwegian depel, a pool, a splash of water or other liquid, a puddle, mud), from dapi = Norwegian dape = Swedish dial. depp, a pool; cf. Danish dial. duppe, a hole where water collects; Middle Dutch dobbe, a pit, pool, = English dial. dub, a pool: see dub.
  2. from dapple, n.
 

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