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dapple-gray

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dap·ple-gray (dpl-gr)
adj.
Gray with a mottled pattern of darker gray markings.
n.
A horse having a coat of mottled gray.
[Middle English dappel-grai, probably alteration (influenced by dappled) of *appel-grai, apple-gray, from Old Norse apalgrr : *apall, apple + grr, gray.]
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Noun1.dapple-gray - grey with a mottled pattern of darker grey markings
dapple-grey, dappled-gray, dappled-grey
gray, grayness, greyness, grey - a neutral achromatic color midway between white and black


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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.
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Behind these came stout King Henry upon a dapple-gray stallion, with his Queen beside him upon a milk-white palfrey.
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