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PIEBALD
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Dictionary entry overview: What does piebald mean?
• PIEBALD (adjective)
The adjective PIEBALD has 1 sense:
1. having sections or patches colored differently and usually brightly
Familiarity information: PIEBALD used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having sections or patches colored differently and usually brightly
Synonyms:
multicolour; varicoloured; varicolored; pied; piebald; particoloured; particolored; painted; multicoloured; calico; multicolored; multicolor; multi-coloured; multi-colour; multi-colored; multi-color; motley
Context example:
pied daisies
Similar:
colored; colorful; coloured (having color or a certain color; sometimes used in combination)
Context examples
We saw many small animals, such as porcupines, a scaly ant-eater, and a wild pig, piebald in color and with long curved tusks.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
There are also piebald, speckle-streaked, or harlequin varieties.
(Dachshund, NCI Thesaurus)
At last he said: Oh, you wretched beard-cleaner, you piebald fool, you hungry mouse-hunter, what can you be thinking of?
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
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