dapple-greyadj.n.

/ˈdap(ə)lɡreɪ/

Forms: Middle English dappel-, -ul(l-, -il(l-, 1500s–1600s daple-, Middle English– dapple-grey, dapple-gray.

Etymology: See dapple n., dapple adj., dapple v. and grey adj. and n.Since dapple-grey occurs nearly two centuries before dapple itself is exemplified in any grammatical capacity (the only form known to be of equal age being the participial adjective dappled ), it is difficult to conjecture whence or how the compound was formed. In such combinations, the first element is usually a noun: e.g. in apple-grey , iron-grey , sky-blue , snow-white , etc.; but it is difficult to attach any analogous meaning to ‘spot-grey’, if we suppose dapple here to be the noun. The Germanic languages generally have a combination meaning ‘apple-grey’: viz. Old Norse apalgrár ‘dapple-grey, i.e. apple-grey, having the streaky colour of an apple’ (Vigfusson), Swedish apel-grå , Norwegian apel-graa , Danish abildgraa , pied, piebald; Old High German aphelgrâ ‘glaucus’ (Grimm), Middle High German apfelgrâ , German apfelgrau ‘dapple-grey’ (Flügel), ‘applied to the apple-round spots which show themselves on grey horses’ (Grimm), Dutch appel-graauw ‘dapple-grey’. So French pommelé ( < pomme apple) marked with roundish spots (of any colour), gris-pommelé grey dappled with darker spots, dapple-grey, pomely grey in Chaucer, Canterbury Tales Prol. 616; with which compare Russian jabločnyj dappled, < jabloko apple; all said especially of the coats of horses. It is not easy to believe that ‘dapple-grey’ which renders these words, has no connection with ‘apple-grey’, their actual translation; the explanation may be that dapple-grey was a mixture of dappled adj. spotted, taken as the sense-equivalent of French pommelé, with apple-grey the formal representative of Norse apal-grâ-, and its Germanic equivalents. This would account at once for the difficulty in analysing dapple- in this combination, and for its presence here before its appearance as an independent word.

A. adj.

1. Grey variegated with rounded spots or patches of a darker shade: said of horses.

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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > colour or marking > [adjective] > dapple-grey

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dappled grey1590

c1386 G. Chaucer Sir Thopas 173 His steede was al dappull gray [v.rr. dappel- (3 MSS.), dapull, dapil-, dapple-grey].

14.. T. of Erceldoune i. 41 Hir palfraye was a dappill graye [v.rr. Cott. dappyll, Lansd. daply, Cambr. dappull gray].

1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry iii. f. 116 The bay, the sorell, the dunne, the daple gray.

1599 T. Moffett Silkewormes 72 How they color change..Then to an yron, then to a dapple gray.

1664 J. Evelyn Sylva (1679) 29 I read..That an handful or two of small Oak buttons, mingled with Oats, given to Horses which are black of colour, will in few days eating alter it to a fine Dapple-grey.

1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. 154/2 Daple-Gray is a light Gray spotted, or shaded with a deeper Gray.

1722 London Gaz. No. 6052/2 The other upon a Dapple-grey Horse.

1805 W. Scott Lay of Last Minstrel i. xxiv. 24 O swiftly can speed my dapple-gray steed.

2. transferred.

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1639 Mayne City Match v. v, in W. C. Hazlitt Dodsley's Sel. Coll. Old Eng. Plays (1875) XIII. 307 She has three Children living; one dapple-grey, Half Moor, half English.

B. n.

A horse of this colour.

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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > colour or marking > [noun] > dappled horse > dapple-grey

dapple-grey1606

dappled grey1810

1606 W. Drummond Let. 6 Aug. in Wks. (1711) 232 Christianus..mounted on a dapple Gray, had his Armour Sky-coloured.

1858 T. G. Vielé Following Drum 35 The term ‘Vermont horses’ was soon after our arrival most potently realized in the possession of a pair of dapple greys.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	dapple-grey
释义	dapple-greyadj.n. /ˈdap(ə)lɡreɪ/ Forms: Middle English dappel-, -ul(l-, -il(l-, 1500s–1600s daple-, Middle English– dapple-grey, dapple-gray. Etymology: See dapple n., dapple adj., dapple v. and grey adj. and n.Since dapple-grey occurs nearly two centuries before dapple itself is exemplified in any grammatical capacity (the only form known to be of equal age being the participial adjective dappled ), it is difficult to conjecture whence or how the compound was formed. In such combinations, the first element is usually a noun: e.g. in apple-grey , iron-grey , sky-blue , snow-white , etc.; but it is difficult to attach any analogous meaning to ‘spot-grey’, if we suppose dapple here to be the noun. The Germanic languages generally have a combination meaning ‘apple-grey’: viz. Old Norse apalgrár ‘dapple-grey, i.e. apple-grey, having the streaky colour of an apple’ (Vigfusson), Swedish apel-grå , Norwegian apel-graa , Danish abildgraa , pied, piebald; Old High German aphelgrâ ‘glaucus’ (Grimm), Middle High German apfelgrâ , German apfelgrau ‘dapple-grey’ (Flügel), ‘applied to the apple-round spots which show themselves on grey horses’ (Grimm), Dutch appel-graauw ‘dapple-grey’. So French pommelé ( < pomme apple) marked with roundish spots (of any colour), gris-pommelé grey dappled with darker spots, dapple-grey, pomely grey in Chaucer, Canterbury Tales Prol. 616; with which compare Russian jabločnyj dappled, < jabloko apple; all said especially of the coats of horses. It is not easy to believe that ‘dapple-grey’ which renders these words, has no connection with ‘apple-grey’, their actual translation; the explanation may be that dapple-grey was a mixture of dappled adj. spotted, taken as the sense-equivalent of French pommelé, with apple-grey the formal representative of Norse apal-grâ-, and its Germanic equivalents. This would account at once for the difficulty in analysing dapple- in this combination, and for its presence here before its appearance as an independent word. A. adj. 1. Grey variegated with rounded spots or patches of a darker shade: said of horses. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > colour or marking > [adjective] > dapple-grey dapple-greyc1386 shimmedc1440 dappled grey1590 c1386 G. Chaucer Sir Thopas 173 His steede was al dappull gray [v.rr. dappel- (3 MSS.), dapull, dapil-, dapple-grey]. 14.. T. of Erceldoune i. 41 Hir palfraye was a dappill graye [v.rr. Cott. dappyll, Lansd. daply, Cambr. dappull gray]. 1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry iii. f. 116 The bay, the sorell, the dunne, the daple gray. 1599 T. Moffett Silkewormes 72 How they color change..Then to an yron, then to a dapple gray. 1664 J. Evelyn Sylva (1679) 29 I read..That an handful or two of small Oak buttons, mingled with Oats, given to Horses which are black of colour, will in few days eating alter it to a fine Dapple-grey. 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. 154/2 Daple-Gray is a light Gray spotted, or shaded with a deeper Gray. 1722 London Gaz. No. 6052/2 The other upon a Dapple-grey Horse. 1805 W. Scott Lay of Last Minstrel i. xxiv. 24 O swiftly can speed my dapple-gray steed. 2. transferred. ΚΠ 1639 Mayne City Match v. v, in W. C. Hazlitt Dodsley's Sel. Coll. Old Eng. Plays (1875) XIII. 307 She has three Children living; one dapple-grey, Half Moor, half English. B. n. A horse of this colour. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > colour or marking > [noun] > dappled horse > dapple-grey dapple-grey1606 dappled grey1810 1606 W. Drummond Let. 6 Aug. in Wks. (1711) 232 Christianus..mounted on a dapple Gray, had his Armour Sky-coloured. 1858 T. G. Vielé Following Drum 35 The term ‘Vermont horses’ was soon after our arrival most potently realized in the possession of a pair of dapple greys. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.n.c1386
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