- apalgrár
- a. dapple-grey.
An Icelandic-English dictionary. Richard Cleasby and Gudbrand Vigfusson. 1874.
apalgrár
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dapple-gray — noun grey with a mottled pattern of darker grey markings • Syn: ↑dapple grey, ↑dappled grey, ↑dappled gray • Hypernyms: ↑gray, ↑grayness, ↑grey, ↑greyness * * * … Useful english dictionary
dapple-gray — /dap euhl gray /, adj. gray with ill defined mottling of a darker shade. [1350 1400; ME, perh. *appelgrei, with d from DAPPLED; cf. ON apalgrar, apli dapple gray horse] * * * … Universalium
dapple — [14] Dapple is a puzzling word. It is presumably derived from or linked in some way to its contemporary dapple grey (although this has never been proved), which has formal and semantic links with several colour terms in other Germanic languages… … The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins
dapple — c.1400 (as pp. adj. dappled), perhaps a back formation from dapple gray apple gray (late 14c.), by resemblance to the markings on an apple (Cf. O.N. apalgrar dapple gray ), or, as it was used of gray horses with round blotches, perhaps via… … Etymology dictionary
dapple — [14] Dapple is a puzzling word. It is presumably derived from or linked in some way to its contemporary dapple grey (although this has never been proved), which has formal and semantic links with several colour terms in other Germanic languages… … Word origins
