Dappled meaning

Adjective: dappled

Pronunciation: (da-puld)

Dappled meaning:

• Having spots or patches of color.
• Marked with small spots or patches contrasting with the background

Synonyms:spotted, dotted, flecked, freckled, mottled, speckled, splotchy, spotty

Quotations: David Brooks – We pretend to be a middle class, democratic nation, but in reality we love our blue bloods.We love the prep school manners, the aristocratic calm, the skull and bones mystery, the dappled lawns stretching before new England summer homes. How else can you explain the Bush vs. Kerry match-up that confronts us this year?

Wendy Insinger – Inside, the cathedral is a Gothic forest dappled in violet twilight and vast with quiet.

J.R.R. Tolkien – The one had leaves of dark green that beneath were as shining silver, and from each of his countless flowers a dew of silver light was ever falling, and the earth beneath was dappled with the shadows of his fluttering leaves.

Sample sentences:

• The forest that was bright with the dappled foliage of autumn.
• Glory be to God for dappled things for skies of couple-color as a brinded cow.