Piebald

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Piebald \Pie"bald`\, a. [Pie the party-colored bird + bald.]
     1. Having spots and patches of black and white, or other
        colors; mottled; pied. "A piebald steed of Thracian
        strain." --Dryden.
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     2. Fig.: Mixed. "Piebald languages." --Hudibras.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  piebald
       adj : having sections or patches colored differently and usually
             brightly; "a jester dressed in motley"; "the painted
             desert"; "a particolored dress"; "a piebald horse";
             "pied daisies" [syn: {motley}, {calico}, {multicolor},
             {multicolour}, {multicolored}, {multicoloured}, {painted},
              {particolored}, {particoloured}, {pied}, {varicolored},
              {varicoloured}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  24 Moby Thesaurus words for "piebald":
     bay, bayard, buckskin, calico, calico pony, chestnut, clouded,
     dapple, dapple-gray, dappled, dun, gray, grizzle, marbled, motley,
     mottled, paint, painted pony, pepper-and-salt, pied, pinto, roan,
     skewbald, sorrel