Hypertext Webster Gateway: "piebald"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.
2. Fig.: Mixed. ``Piebald languages.'' --Hudibras.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (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}, {multicolor}, {multicolour},
{multicolored}, {multicoloured}, {painted}, {particolored},
{particoloured}, {pied}, {varicolored}, {varicoloured}]
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