DAPPLE-GRAY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does dapple-gray mean? 

• DAPPLE-GRAY (noun)
  The noun DAPPLE-GRAY has 1 sense:

1. grey with a mottled pattern of darker grey markings

  Familiarity information: DAPPLE-GRAY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DAPPLE-GRAY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Grey with a mottled pattern of darker grey markings

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

dapple-gray; dapple-grey; dappled-gray; dappled-grey

Hypernyms ("dapple-gray" is a kind of...):

gray; grayness; grey; greyness (a neutral achromatic color midway between white and black)

 Context examples 

First came Black Simon with his banner, bestriding a lean and powerful dapple-gray charger, as hard and wiry and warwise as himself.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He made me observe, that among the Houyhnhnms, the white, the sorrel, and the iron-gray, were not so exactly shaped as the bay, the dapple-gray, and the black; nor born with equal talents of mind, or a capacity to improve them; and therefore continued always in the condition of servants, without ever aspiring to match out of their own race, which in that country would be reckoned monstrous and unnatural.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

It chanced on that very evening that Sir Nigel Loring, having supped before sunset, as was his custom, and having himself seen that Pommers and Cadsand, his two war-horses, with the thirteen hacks, the five jennets, my lady's three palfreys, and the great dapple-gray roussin, had all their needs supplied, had taken his dogs for an evening breather.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

For this we had an excommunication read against the man, when next we saw our holy father at Avignon; but as we had not his name, and knew nothing of him, save that he rode a dapple-gray roussin, I have feared sometimes that the blight may have settled upon the wrong man.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)