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English Dictionary: Piebald by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
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"
    Synonym(s): motley, calico, multicolor, multi-color, multicolour, multi- colour, multicolored, multi-colored, multicoloured, multi-coloured, painted, particolored, particoloured, piebald, pied, varicolored, varicoloured
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. [bd]A piebald steed of Thracian
            strain.[b8] --Dryden.
  
      2. Fig.: Mixed. [bd]Piebald languages.[b8] --Hudibras.
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