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  • noun Plural form of piebald.

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Examples

  • He wandered from stable to stable examining bays and roans, blue roans and piebalds, duns, sorrels, blacks, whites, grays and dapples, all mares or geldings.

    Knife of Dreams Jordan, Robert, 1948- 2005

  • There were twenty-eight Indians and twenty-four cowboys, including two unarmed men whose only function was to sit atop a wooden stagecoach drawn by four piebalds.

    Stillwater William F. Weld 2002

  • There were twenty-eight Indians and twenty-four cowboys, including two unarmed men whose only function was to sit atop a wooden stagecoach drawn by four piebalds.

    Stillwater William F. Weld 2002

  • There were twenty-eight Indians and twenty-four cowboys, including two unarmed men whose only function was to sit atop a wooden stagecoach drawn by four piebalds.

    Stillwater William F. Weld 2002

  • As we emerged from the railway carriage, the first object that greeted my eyes was Sir Guy's great gaudy drag, with its three piebalds and a roan.

    Kate Coventry An Autobiography G. J. Whyte-Melville

  • "Take the piebalds," said he, "if you'd like to have a drive, and take some nice girl -- Miss Ethel or Bijou Brown -- for a two-forty shine."

    Lippincott's Magazine Of Popular Literature And Science Old Series, Vol. 36—New Series, Vol. 10, July 1885 Various

  • There seems a remarkable tendency in these horses to assume the Isabella colors, the light chestnuts, and even the piebalds or paint horses of the Indian prairies or the Mexican Savannah.

    Acadia or, A Month with the Blue Noses Frederic S. Cozzens

  • The animals had all died or been disposed of except the horses -- a pair of broken-down yet intelligent piebalds -- Puck, and Bruno, the bear that

    Two Little Travellers A Story for Girls Frances Browne Arthur

  • The baby used to tie me on to his barrel, and Jack and I were drawn round and round the kitchen with as much satisfaction to our mistress, as in the days when I shone forth, in my gilt coach with its four prancing piebalds.

    The Doll and Her Friends or Memoirs of the Lady Seraphina Unknown

  • So we rolled smoothly out, the piebalds shaking their harness and trotting merrily along, the roan placed on the off-side, for the purpose of sustaining whatever amount of punishment our charioteer thought fit to inflict.

    Kate Coventry An Autobiography G. J. Whyte-Melville

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