Read full poem →The farmer on the seat dangles the reins on the rumps
of dapple-gray horses.
Dictionary Entry
A mottled marking, usually in clusters.
Origin
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Common Phrases
gray dapplegrey dapple. dapplegrays dapple
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Poetry examples for “dapple”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →I often try to think in what sweet month
The languid painted ladies used to dapple
The yellow by-road mazing from the main,
Read full poem →I often try to think in what sweet month
The languid painted ladies used to dapple
The yellow by-road mazing from the main,
Read full poem →Fire-featuring heaven. For earth | her being has unbound, her
dapple is at an end, as-
tray or aswarm, all throughther, in throngs; | self in self steeped
Read full poem →I CAUGHT this morning morning's minion, king-
dom of daylight's dauphin, dapple-dawn-drawn Fal-
con, in his riding
Read full poem →I CAUGHT this morning morning's minion, king-
dom of daylight's dauphin, dapple-dawn-drawn Fal-
con, in his riding
Read full poem →Een at St. Thomas tide old Rover's bark
Hails Dapple's trot an hour before it's dark.
He is a simple-worded plain old man
Read full poem →In the distance the flowing glaze, the breast of the river, with a
wind-dapple here and there,
With ranging hills on the banks, with many a line against the sky,