Definition of "dapples" [dapples]

• Plural form of dapple. (noun)
• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dapple. (verb)

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• "As a warm October sun dapples the trees with light, they guide two television crews and a newspaper reporter among the oaks, while sending e-mails, giving interviews and arranging news conferences on their phones."
• "Sometimes the writer cozies up on the source's sun porch, which provides the opportunity to poetically recount how dapples of golden sunlight played across the movie star's face just as she began to discuss her painful, highly public divorce."
• "Sun dapples a bank from which an adder slips away."