black-and-white piebald

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• piebald — adjective a piebald animal has large areas of skin of two different colours, usually black and white piebald noun (C) …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

• piebald — piebald, skewbald A piebald horse or other animal is one having irregular patches of two colours, especially black and white. A skewbald animal has irregular patches of white and another colour (other than black) …   Modern English usage

• piebald — (adj.) of two different colors, 1580s, formed from PIE (Cf. pie) (n.2) magpie + bald spotted, white (see BALD (Cf. bald)), on analogy of the black and white plumage of the magpie. Hence, of mixed character, mongrel. Technically only of black and… …   Etymology dictionary

• 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. [1913 Webster] 2. Fig.: Mixed. Piebald languages. Hudibras. [1913… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• piebald — ► ADJECTIVE ▪ (of a horse) having irregular patches of two colours, typically black and white. ► NOUN ▪ a piebald horse. ORIGIN from pie in magpie + bald in the obsolete sense «streaked with white» …   English terms dictionary

• Piebald — A piebald is an animal, especially a horse, that has a spotting pattern of large white and black patches. The colour of the horse s skin underneath its coat is both black (under the black patches of hair) and pink (under the white patches). This… …   Wikipedia

• piebald — /ˈpaɪbɔld / (say puybawld) adjective 1. having patches of black and white or of other colours; particoloured. 2. (of a horse) white with black patches. 3. Obsolete Colloquial (of a person) of mixed white and non white descent. –noun 4. a piebald… …  

• piebald — adjective (of a horse) having irregular patches of two colours, typically black and white. noun a piebald horse. Origin C16: from pie2 (because of the magpie s black and white plumage) + bald (in the obs. sense streaked with white ) …   English new terms dictionary

• piebald — UK [ˈpaɪˌbɔːld] / US [ˈpaɪˌbɔld] adjective a piebald animal is two different colours, usually black and white Derived word: piebald UK / US noun countable Word forms piebald : singular piebald plural piebalds …   English dictionary

• piebald — pie|bald [ˈpaıbo:ld US bo:ld] adj [Date: 1500 1600; Origin: pie magpie ( MAGPIE) + bald] a piebald animal has black and white areas on its body ▪ a piebald horse …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• piebald — [[t]pa͟ɪbɔːld[/t]] ADJ A piebald animal has patches of black and white on it. ...a piebald pony …   English dictionary