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Marked with patches of white and a colour
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skewbald
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Skewbald \Skew"bald`\, a. Marked with spots and patches of white and some color other than black; -- usually distinguished from piebald, in which the colors are properly white and black. Said of horses.
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
Skewbald is a colour pattern of horses . A skewbald horse has a coat made up of white patches on a non-black base coat, such as chestnut , bay , or any colour besides black coat. Skewbald horses which are bay and white (bay is a reddish-brown colour with ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. (context of horses English) Marked with patches of white and non-black colours.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1650s, "having white and brown (or some other color) patches, spotted in an irregular manner" (used especially of horses), from skued "skewbald" (mid-15c.), of unknown origin, + bald "having white patches" (see bald ). First element said to be unconnected ...
Usage examples of skewbald.
There was a pleasing serenity about the great pompous battle scene with its solemn courtly warriors bestriding their heavily prancing steeds, grey or skewbald or dun, all gravely in earnest, and yet somehow conveying the impression that their campaigns were but vast serious picnics arranged in the grand manner.
HOUR LATER Ryan was tall in the saddle of a cantankerous skewbald, heading along a narrow trail with J.
And so I, walking among crowds composed largely of these eclectics and the townsmen (who seemed to me not much different from the citizens of Nessus, save that their clothing and their manners were somewhat rougher) found myself speculating on dark-eyed, dark-skinned women, women with glossy black hair as thick as the tails of the skewbald mounts of their brothers, women whose faces I imagined as strong yet delicate, women given to ferocious resistance and swift surrender, women who could be won but not bought—if such women exist in this world.