Marked with spots; spotted; variegated with spots of different colors or shades of color, as a dapple-bay or dapple-gray; applied to a horse or other beast. It may sometimes express streaked, but this is not its true signification.
Word of the Day: Catachrestical
1. To spot; to variegate with spots.
2. The gentle day dapples the drowsy east with spots
3. of gray. Shak.
Spotted; variegated with spots of different colors or shades of color.
Brown Roget’s Thesaurus §433
V. render brown, tan, embrown, bronze
Adj. brown, bay, dapple, auburn, castaneous, chestnut, nut- brown, cinnamon, russet, tawny, fuscous, chocolate, maroon, foxy, tan, brunette, whitey brown, fawn-colored, snuff-colored, liver- colored, brown as a berry, brown as mahogany, brown as the oak leaves, khaki, sun-burnt, tanned, primitive colors
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0 KJV and 2 BSB verses contain “Dapple”
The black horses which are therein go forth into the north country; and the white go forth after them; and the grisled go forth toward the south country.
The one with the black horses is going toward the land of the north, the one with the white horses toward the west, and the one with the dappled horses toward the south.”