dapple-grey
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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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 Jusserand, Jean Jules
I claim of you the twelve minae, which you borrowed from me to buy the dapple-grey horse.
From The Eleven Comedies, Volume 1 by Aristophanes
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 Leblanc, Maurice
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