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WordWealth: piebald
pie·bald
 ,
adj.
1. having patches
of black and white or of other colors; parti-colored.
n.
2. a piebald
animal, esp. a horse.
[158090;
PIE2
(see PIED)
+ BALD]
pie  bald ly,
adv.
pie baldness,
n.
Syn.1. dappled,
mottled. (Random
House Webster's Unabridged).
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A moon bow, though among the rarest is not the least brilliant of the diadems
of night. Snaring within its triple arches humid cerulean, veiled rose,
saffron, purple, lime-green smeared with maize, it echoes palely a rainbow's
hardier chromatics. A moon bow is never so rare that it may not be hoped for;
in rainy weather, with a full moon moving in puffs of light through a piebald
sky, a moonlight gardener may expect to see one.
Ethel Anderson, 'A
Garden for Moonlight'; The Atlantic; August 1936
The Reverend Joseph A. Burgess drives a station wagon whose make
surely could be determined, but the car is so dilapidated--the
ornamentation gone and the paint thin and piebald, as
if sandblasted--that the vehicle has achieved a perfectly generic
identity.
Richard Todd, "Faith, Fear, and Farming"; Civilization,
June 2000
"This story happened a long while ago," he said, "in those
uncomfortable piebald times when a third of the
people were Pagan, and a third Christian, and the biggest third of all
just followed whichever religion the Court happened to profess."
H. H. Munro (Saki), "The Story of St Vespaluus"
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