Search Result for "piebald":
Wordnet 3.0
ADJECTIVE (1)
1. having sections or patches colored differently and usually brightly;
- Example: "a jester dressed in motley"
- Example: "the painted desert"
- Example: "a particolored dress"
- Example: "a piebald horse"
- Example: "pied daisies"
[syn: motley, calico, multicolor, multi-color, multicolour, multi-colour, multicolored, multi-colored, multicoloured, multi-coloured, painted, particolored, particoloured, piebald, pied, varicolored, varicoloured]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Piebald \Pie"bald`\, a. [Pie the party-colored bird + bald.] 1. Having spots and patches of black and white, or other colors; mottled; pied. "A piebald steed of Thracian strain." --Dryden. [1913 Webster] 2. Fig.: Mixed. "Piebald languages." --Hudibras. [1913 Webster]Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
24 Moby Thesaurus words for "piebald": bay, bayard, buckskin, calico, calico pony, chestnut, clouded, dapple, dapple-gray, dappled, dun, gray, grizzle, marbled, motley, mottled, paint, painted pony, pepper-and-salt, pied, pinto, roan, skewbald, sorrel
