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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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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]
WordNet (r) 2.0
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
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
calico, motley, multicolor, multicolored, multicolour, multicoloured, painted, particolored, particoloured, pied, varicolored, varicoloured
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