pied
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 archaic pie (“magpie”), from Old French pie, from Latin pica. Compare typologically Polish srokaty < sroka.
Phrases
- Atlas pied flycatcher
- Australian pied imperial pigeon
- European pied flycatcher
- Malabar pied hornbill
- pied antelope
- pied avocet
- pied barbet
- pied bat
Related words
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