dapple
- n a small contrasting part of something
- v colour with streaks or blotches of different shades
- Only in an epilogue and incidental notes does Collaborator Whitehill manage to chip off the dapple paint and reveal the metal beneath.
- He ran as he never had before, nosed out the dapple-grey favorite, First Fiddle, in a four-horse photo finish.
- A typically English young girl's best friend is her pony, and that goes dapple for Princess Anne, 13, who comes from such horsy stock that Dad is sporting an arm in a sling as a .