piebald
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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
The breeders of Prim’Holsteins—the archetypal piebald dairy cow, responsible for eighty per cent of France’s milk supply—were almost apologetic about the imperative of causing a ruckus.
From The New Yorker • Apr. 4, 2016
But the Stop Shopping Choir exuded that piebald mixture of tentativeness and enthusiasm that makes nonprofessional singing groups so uniquely affecting.
From New York Times • Feb. 12, 2015
He waddled over to the piebald gelding and took a look at his teeth.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
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Animal Farm
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