piebald
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Another great success was “Strider,” Mark Rozovsky’s play with music based on a Tolstoy story about a piebald horse that is tormented because of its appearance.
From New York Times ● Oct. 7, 2022
A woman presented a piebald English bulldog, the Drake mascot, and Harris gamely crouched on the floor, scratching his belly, till the handler excused him, saying, “He smells food.”
From The New Yorker ● Jul. 15, 2019
In spite of honey-and-gold weather, only 26,623 of Ebbets Field’s 32,500 seats were occupied, and there were wide, piebald patches of untented pews in left field.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 31, 2019
The moose wasn’t an albino either, according to National Geographic, but it had a partial form of leucism called piebald — where only specks of colors remain.
From The Verge ● Sep. 17, 2017
Its tongue was piebald, and it protruded most pathetically from the unicorn's dead mouth.
From "Stardust" by Neil Gaiman
Vocabulary lists containing piebald
Animal Farm
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