Dapple
Dapple , noun
[Compare Icelandic depill a spot, a dot, a dog with spots over the eyes, dapi a pool, and English dimple.]
One of the spots on a dappled animal.
He has... as many eyes on his body as my gray mare hath dapples.
Dapple , adjective
Marked with spots of different shades of color; spotted; variegated; as, a dapple horse.
Some dapple mists still floated along the peaks.
His steed was all dapple-gray.
O, swiftly can speed my dapple-gray steed.
The word is used in composition to denote that some color is variegated or marked with spots; as, dapple-bay; dapple-gray.
Also: Dappled
Dapple , transitive verb
To variegate with spots; to spot.
The gentle day,...
Dapples the drowsy east with spots of gray.
The dappled pink and blushing rose.