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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Spotted or patched, especially in black and white: a piebald horse.
  2. n. A piebald animal, especially a horse.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Having spots or patches of white and black or other color; party-colored; pied: as, a piebald horse.
  2. Hence Mixed; heterogeneous; mongrel.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. also used figuratively Spotted or blotched, especially in black and white.
  2. adj. figuratively Of mixed character, heterogeneous.
  3. n. An animal with piebald coloration.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Having spots and patches of black and white, or other colors; mottled; pied.
  2. adj. Fig.: Mixed.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. having sections or patches colored differently and usually brightly

Etymologies

  1. From pie ("magpie") + bald ("having white patches or blazes"). (Wiktionary)
  2. pie2 + bald. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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