Dăp’ple1, a.
a. [Perhaps from apple, like the Fr. pomm elé, dappled, variegated with spots like an apple, from pomme, apple; but cf. also L. Ger. dippelm, H. Ger. tüpfeln, to make points, to spot.] Marked with spots of different shades of color; spotted; variegated; as, a dapple horse. Some dapple mists still floated along the peaks of the hills. W. Scott. The word is used in composition to denote that some color is variegated or marked with spots; as, dapple-bay, dapple-gray. O, swiftly can speed my dapple-gray steed. W. Scott.