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piebald |
2 definitions found 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 1.6 [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}, {culticolour}, {multicolored}, {multicoloured}, {painted}, {particolored}, {particoloured}, {pied}, {varicolored}, {varicoloured}]
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