Entry: piebald (adj.)
In context: "...the ones here with the least bad piebald coloring are the players who can tolerate spraying themselves down with Lemon Pledge before outdoor play."
Definition: Of a horse or other animal: having black and white patches; pied; (more widely) having patches of other colours, particoloured (rare)
Other:
1885 R. F. Burton tr. Arabian Nights' Entertainm. I. xiv. 134 Thereupon the eagle changed into a piebald wolf and these two battled in the palace for a long time.
SNOOT score: 1
Page: 99
Source: Oxford English Dictionary
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