dapple-grey
Britishnoun
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Originally it had been dapple-grey, but it returned year after year repainted in all shades and hues.
From Time Magazine Archive
Marshal Badoglio rode into the Ethiopian capital on a small dapple-grey.
From Time Magazine Archive
Everything has its value: the same Edward had spent fifty pounds over a horse called Bayard, and seventy for another called Labryt, which was dapple-grey.
From A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance by Jean Jules Jusserand
His bristly hair stood up straight all over his head, giving it the appearance of a broad, dapple-grey clothes-brush.
From Arsene Lupin by Maurice Leblanc
The tassel of the hearth-rug has flung down the bass-drum, and he and his dapple-grey horse lie overtripped, slipped out of line, with the little lead drumsticks glistening to the fire's shine.
From Men, Women and Ghosts by Amy Lowell
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