Dap"ple (?), Dap"pled (?), a.
Marked with spots of different shades of color; spotted; variegated; as, a dapple horse.
Some dapple mists still floated along the peaks.
Sir W. Scott.
⇒ The word is used in composition to denote that some color is variegated or marked with spots; as, dapple-bay; dapple-gray.
His steed was all dapple-gray.
Chaucer.
O, swiftly can speed my dapple-gray steed.
Sir W. Scott.
© Webster 1913.