dapple-gray
8.0
An animal, often a horse, with a gray coat and darker gray spots
- noun
- /ˈdæpəl ɡreɪ/
- US
:
moteado gris
- During the competition, the judges praised the beauty of the dapple-gray horses.
- dapple-gray horse
Examples
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The rider mounted her dapple-gray horse with excitement before the race began.
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On his dapple-gray gelding...
Fiction book (1994) -
He admired the unique pattern on his dapple-gray mare as she grazed in the meadow.
Synonyms
14
6.0
A horse with a light coat that becomes whiter with age
focuses on a mottled pattern of darker spots rather than general light coat
7.7
A gray horse coat with darker gray spots
has identical meaning but is spelled with a different final letter
How Mottled
Surface Forms
dapple-gray singular
dapple-grays plural
Morphology
Etymology
Dapple-gray begins with dapple, which means 'spotted' (think of sunlight making small light spots), and ends with gray, the color. So a dapple-gray is a gray animal, often a horse, with lighter and darker spots on its coat.