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Monday, March 10, 2003

piebald: Dictionary.com Word of the Day. piebald [Dictionary.com Word of the Day]

Word of the Day for Saturday March 8, 2003

piebald PY-bald, adjective:
1. Having spots and patches of black and white, or other colors; mottled.
2. Mixed; composed of incongruous parts.

She remembered the piebald hair of a convicted woman, with brown roots growing through the crude bleach.
--Jan Dalley, Diana Mosley

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"


Piebald is from pie, the parti-colored bird + bald.


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