dapple-grey
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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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
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
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 Lowell, Amy
A third point on which fairy-lore usually insists is that the steeds of the fairies shall be white; here Thomas of Erceldoune is at variance with the other poems, the elf-queen's palfrey being a dapple-grey.
From The Sources and Analogues of 'A Midsummer-night's Dream' by Sidgwick, Compiled by Frank
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