DAPPLEa.
Marked with spots; spotted; variegated with spots of different colors or shades of color, as a dapple-bay or dapple-gray; applied to a horse or other beast. It may sometimes express streaked, but this is not its true signification.
DAPPLEv.t.
To spot; to variegate with spots.
The gentle day dapples the drowsy east with spots of gray. Shak.
The dapples pink, and blushing rose. Prior.