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piebald
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Piebald \Pie"bald`\, a. [Pie the party-colored bird + bald.]
Having spots and patches of black and white, or other colors; mottled; pied. ``A piebald steed of Thracian strain.''
--Dryden.Fig.: Mixed. ``Piebald languages.''
--Hudibras.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
a. 1 (context also used figuratively English) spotted or blotched, ''especially'' in black and white. 2 (context figuratively English) Of mixed character, heterogeneous. n. An animal with piebald coloration.
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, painted, particolored, particoloured, pied, varicolored, varicoloured]
Wikipedia
A piebald or pied animal is one that has a pattern of pigmented spots on an unpigmented (white) background of hair, feathers or scales. The spots are pigmented in shades of black and/or yellow as determined by the genotype controlling the color of the animal. The animal's skin underneath its coat may or may not be pigmented under the spots but the skin in the white background is not pigmented.
Location of the pigmented spots is dependent on the migration of melanoblasts (primordial pigment cells) from the neural crest to paired bilateral locations in the skin of the early embryo. The resulting pattern appears symmetrical only if melanoblasts migrate to both locations of a pair and proliferate to the same degree in both locations. The appearance of symmetry can be obliterated if the proliferation of the melanocytes (pigment cells) within the developing spots is so great that the sizes of the spots increase to the point that some of the spots merge, leaving only small areas of the white background among the spots and at the tips of the extremities.
Animals with this pattern may include horses, dogs, birds, cats, pigs, and cattle, as well as snakes such as the ball python. Some animals also exhibit colouration of the irises of the eye that match the surrounding skin (blue eyes for pink skin, brown for dark). The underlying genetic cause is related to a condition known as leucism.
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 rock scene. Two members still live in the Boston area, while two others now live in Los Angeles. Piebald's last show was on April 19, 2008, at Middle East Downstairs in Cambridge, Massachusetts, though the band reunited for a set at The Bamboozle in East Rutherford, New Jersey, on May 2, 2010.
Piebald refers to an animal coloring that is spotted.
Piebald may also refer to:
- Piebald (band), an American alternative rock band
- Piebaldism, a pigmentation disorder in humans
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.