piebald
pie·bald
adjective
1.
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”
Origin
From pie (“magpie”) + bald (“having white patches or blazes”). Compare typologically Polish srokaty < sroka.
Phrases
- piebald dolphin
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