PIED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pied mean? 

• PIED (adjective)
  The adjective PIED has 1 sense:

1. having sections or patches colored differently and usually brightly

  Familiarity information: PIED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PIED (adjective)

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 

Alleyne had ceased painting his pied merlin, and sat, brush in hand, staring with open eyes at a type of man so strange and so unlike any whom he had met.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

And pied, that is of two several colors.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Aye, this is indeed a pied merlin, and with a leveret under its claws, as I am a living woman.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Now, young man, what manner of a bird would you suppose a pied merlin to be—that being the proper sign of my hostel?

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He came to me, look you, saying that if I would furnish him with a gallon of ale, wherewith to strengthen himself as he worked, and also the pigments and a board, he would paint for me a noble pied merlin which I might hang along with the blazonry over my door.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)