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piebald
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective piebald has 1 sense
- piebald(s = adj.all) calico, motley, multi-color, multi-colored, multi-colour, multi-coloured, multicolor, multicolored, multicolour, multicoloured, painted, particolored, particoloured, pied, varicolored, varicoloured - 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"
CIDE DICTIONARY
piebald, a. [Pie the party-colored bird + bald.].
- Having spots and patches of black and white, or other colors; mottled; pied. Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- Fig.: Mixed. Hudibras. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
piebald, adj. & n.
--adj.
1 (usu. of an animal, esp. a horse) having irregular patches of two colours, esp. black and white.
2 motley; mongrel.
--n. a piebald animal, esp. a horse.
--adj.
1 (usu. of an animal, esp. a horse) having irregular patches of two colours, esp. black and white.
2 motley; mongrel.
--n. a piebald animal, esp. a horse.
THESAURUS
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, sorrelROGET THESAURUS
piebald
Variegation
N variegation, colors, dichroism, trichroism, iridescence, play of colors, polychrome, maculation, spottiness, striae, spectrum, rainbow, iris, tulip, peacock, chameleon, butterfly, tortoise shell, mackerel, mackerel sky, zebra, leopard, cheetah, nacre, ocelot, ophite, mother-of-pearl, opal, marble, check, plaid, tartan, patchwork, marquetry-, parquetry, mosaic, tesserae, strigae, chessboard, checkers, chequers, harlequin, Joseph's coat, tricolor, variegated, many-colored, many-hued, divers-colored, party- colored, dichromatic, polychromatic, bicolor, tricolor, versicolor, of all the colors of the rainbow, of all manner of colors, kaleidoscopic, iridescent, opaline, opalescent, prismatic, nacreous, pearly, shot, gorge de pigeon, chatoyant, irisated, pavonine, pied, piebald, motley, mottled, marbled, pepper and salt, paned, dappled, clouded, cymophanous, mosaic, tesselated, plaid, tortoise shell, spotted, spotty, punctated, powdered, speckled, freckled, flea-bitten, studded, flecked, fleckered, striated, barred, veined, brinded, brindled, tabby, watered, grizzled, listed, embroidered, daedal, naevose, stipiform, strigose, striolate, (iii) PERCEPTIONS OF LIGHT.
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