Piebald
from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
piebald
adj 1: 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}, {multi-color}, {multicolour}, {multi-
colour}, {multicolored}, {multi-colored},
{multicoloured}, {multi-coloured}, {painted},
{particolored}, {particoloured}, {piebald}, {pied},
{varicolored}, {varicoloured}]
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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.
[1913 Webster]
2. Fig.: Mixed. "Piebald languages." --Hudibras.
[1913 Webster]
from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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
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