Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Spotted or patched, especially in black and white.
- noun A piebald animal, especially a horse.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having spots or patches of white and black or other color; party-colored; pied: as, a piebald horse.
- Hence Mixed; heterogeneous; mongrel.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having spots and patches of black and white, or other colors; mottled; pied.
- adjective Fig.: Mixed.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective also used figuratively
Spotted orblotched , especially in black and white. - adjective figuratively Of mixed
character ,heterogeneous . - noun An animal with piebald coloration.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having sections or patches colored differently and usually brightly
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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This little guy is what's known as a piebald squirrel - the term piebald applies to any animal displaying depigmented white fur.
Latest Articles The Record 2008
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If a horse is "piebald", its coat has large patches of which two colours?
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It looks to me like a "piebald" black duck. aside from the whitish-cream color the whitish ring around the bill has me stumped.
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It looks to me like a "piebald" black duck. aside from the whitish-cream color the whitish ring around the bill has me stumped.
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A normal ball python today typically sells for under $100; a "piebald" python — white with rare blotches of brown and green — can fetch $3,000.
Bear Market in Boas: Proposed Laws Strangle Sales of Mutant Snakes Justin Scheck 2010
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A normal ball python today typically sells for under $100; a "piebald" python — white with rare blotches of brown and green — can fetch $3,000.
Bear Market in Boas: Proposed Laws Strangle Sales of Mutant Snakes Justin Scheck 2010
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The latter word is properly balled, i.e., marked with a ball, or white streak, a word of Celtic origin; cf. "piebald," i.e., balled like a (mag) pie, and the "bald-faced stag."
The Romance of Names Ernest Weekley 1909
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The word "piebald" could also apply, though it generally refers to a combination of black and white.
Roundrock Journal 2010
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6. If a horse is "piebald", its coat has large patches of which two colours?
April 2009 2009
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Even the Jacob sheep seemed as if they had been chiselled out of piebald stone.
Country diary: Claxton, Norfolk Mark Cocker 2010
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