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pied adjective [ pʌɪd ]

• having two or more different colours.
• "the pied flycatcher"
Similar: multicoloured, variegated, particoloured, tabby, black and white, brown and white, piebald, skewbald, dappled, brindled, brindle, spotted, marked, mottled, speckled, flecked, patchy, blotchy, blotched, pinto, marled, jaspé,
Origin: Middle English (originally in the sense ‘black and white like a magpie’): from pie2 + -ed1.


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