piebald Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective satellite having sections or patches colored differently and usually brightly
    painted; multi-coloured; varicoloured; multicolour; varicolored; motley; pied; particolored; multi-color; multicolored; multicoloured; multicolor; particoloured; multi-colored; multi-colour; calico.
    • a jester dressed in motley
    • the painted desert
    • a particolored dress
    • a piebald horse
    • pied daisies

WordNet

Pie"bald` adjective
Etymology
Pie the party-colored bird + bald.
Definitions
  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.

Webster 1913