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Word: piebald

Definition: of different colors; mottled; spotted in different colors (esp. in black and white); Ex. piebald horse; CF. pie+bald


Sentences Containing 'piebald'

Her damsels and she are all one glow of gold, all bunches of pearls, all diamonds, all rubies, all cloth of brocade of more than ten borders; with their hair loose on their shoulders like so many sunbeams playing with the wind; and moreover, they come mounted on three piebald cackneys, the finest sight ever you saw."

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