Definition: piebald

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Source: WordNet (r) 1.7 

piebald
     adj : 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" [syn: motley, multicolor, multicolour,
            multicolored, multicoloured, painted, particolored,
            particoloured, pied, varicolored, varicoloured]

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) 

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.

   2. Fig.: Mixed. ``Piebald languages.'' --Hudibras.