The word 'dapple' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe a mottled or spotted pattern or color, usually in reference to an animal. For example, "The horse had a beautiful dapple grey coat."
The poet who once gave glory to God for dappled things now surveys the earth at night, when "her dapple is at an end".
Bird droppings dapple the floor of the vast facility, in Kandahar in southern Afghanistan, heartland of the extremist Taliban regime that was toppled in 2001.
So squeezed between the brownish dapple of the Thames and the smoggy chug of the Westway, you can find the Ghost of Cameron Future.
As long as we were feeding paper into a typewriter, this anxiety was still present to our minds, and was revealed in the pointillism of Wite-Out, or even in the dapple of letters that were darker, pressed in confidence, as opposed to the lighter ones, pressed more hesitantly.
The contemporary stories are a change in emphasis and style — the melancholic, autumnal dapple is burned away by the energy of Dasgupta's vivid storytelling.
Ishihaze — or "stone explosion" — allows Kuwata to create the dazzling bursts of petrol, gold and mercury that dapple many of his pieces and lend another layer of textural complexity.
I saw a beautiful, long-tailed, dapple-grey horse take a mighty leap over the berthing rails and land into a fully laden boat.
(Staley will recite "The Windhover": "I caught this morning morning's minion, kingdom of daylight's dauphin, dapple-dawn-drawn Falcon").
Hear the soothing dap-dap-dapple of water echoing from the marble fountain.
She is more interested in clothes and in competing in horse shows with her dapple-gray jumper, Aikor, while Mr. Pellizzari prefers basketball or auto racing.
The horses: Arab, Connemara, Welsh mountain, Appaloosa, Lipizzaner, dapple-grey, palomino, dun and strawberry roan.
