Word of the day: “dappled” - blotched, patched, mottled, diversified (poss. from Icelandic depill, dot).

“Glory be to God for dappled things–

For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow;

…Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls; finches’ wings”

  • GM Hopkins, ‘Pied Beauty, 1877 (via @RobGMacfarlane)
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