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piebald
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Piebald was an American alternative rock band. Piebald started as a hardcore band in Andover , Massachusetts , out of the same scene that produced Converge . They later moved to the Boston suburb of Somerville and became a staple of the Greater Boston indie ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"of two different colors," 1580s, formed from pie (n.2) "magpie" + bald in its older sense of "spotted, white;" in reference to the black-and-white plumage of the magpie. Hence, "of mixed character, mongrel." Technically only of black-and-white colorings. ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. having sections or patches colored differently and usually brightly; "a jester dressed in motley"; "the painted desert"; "a particolored dress"; "a piebald horse"; "pied daisies" [syn: motley , calico , multicolor , multicolour , multicolored , multicoloured ...
Usage examples of piebald.
A fat old Albacore shark swam past us, blotched and piebald like a pig, but he paid us no attention and I lowered the spear as he drifted away into the hazy distance.
The thaw had set in and this time as Skullion pedalled out to Coft the fields around him were piebald.
Winter did not daunt him, and when the snows came and the foxes and ermines turned their coats to snowiest white, he was one of the rare ones who continued to go out, he and his piebald pony, a shaggy beast as gay in its coat as the city with its painting, looking out on the icy world through a shag of yellow mane and forelock that let all the world wonder whether there was a horse within it.
Still never turning his back on the cowpuncher, who was now uncoiling his lariat and preparing it for a cast, Bard edged the piebald into the current.
Glancing back, he saw Nash in the act of throwing his lariat to the ground, wild with anger, and before he could understand the meaning of this burst of temper over a mere spoiled lariat, the gun whipped from the side of the cowboy, exploded, and the little piebald, with ears pricked sharply forward as though in vague curiosity, crumpled to the ground.
The Piebald had neighed repeatedly, and the mares had slowly broken their tight ring.
Only then did he return to us and tell us that the visitors had been the mother and sister of my would-be murderer, Piebald, and that they had come out from Puckeridge, some way north of London.
He had an oddly piebald look, because his hair had begun to fall out in clumps.
Dumpty longed to stop and talk to a dear little piebald pony, but Humpty carried her on till they came to the caravans.
Piebald did have a lobo wife, that she resided in another villa on Planet Macho, and that her name was Hulda.
Our strategy had been that by offering amnesty to the Witted, we might steal the force that drove the Piebalds.
He says that perhaps the Piebald Prince got his Wit as much from his royal mother as his baseborn father.
Bewildered, Aldora regarded the thousands of horseswhites, grays, bays, chestnuts, sorrels, roans, claybanks and blacks with occasional pintos, piebalds and that flaxen-maned and tailed variety of golden-chestnut known as palomino.
It was done, and a lantern-jawed cowpuncher brought out a piebald gelding with long ears and sleepy eyes.
And beside them the lantern-jawed cowpuncher held the bridle of the piebald mustang.