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dapple-grey

British  

noun

  1. a horse with a grey coat having spots of darker colour

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Marshal Badoglio rode into the Ethiopian capital on a small dapple-grey.

From Time Magazine Archive

Originally it had been dapple-grey, but it returned year after year repainted in all shades and hues.

From Time Magazine Archive

True to its unpleasant habit, the dapple-grey had done noble service to the human race, by swerving under a branch at full gallop, and scraping its rider into space.

From The Shadow of a Man by E. W. (Ernest William) Hornung

The beast now revealed itself a dapple-grey; and at last between its unkempt ears, and against the slaty sky to westward, Moya described the timbers of the whim.

From The Shadow of a Man by E. W. (Ernest William) Hornung

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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