piebald
adjective
[ ˈpʌɪbɔːld ]
• (of a horse) having irregular patches of two colours, typically black and white.
Similar:
black and white,
brown and white,
pied,
skewbald,
dappled,
brindled,
brindle,
spotted,
marked,
mottled,
speckled,
flecked,
patchy,
blotchy,
blotched,
variegated,
multicoloured,
multicolour,
particoloured,
tabby,
pinto,
marled,
jaspé,
piebald
noun
• a piebald horse.
Origin:
late 16th century: from pie2 (because of the magpie's black-and-white plumage) + bald (in the obsolete sense ‘streaked with white’).
