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
China’s captive-breeding program, into which Bao Bao will be seconded once she reaches sexual maturity, has produced a bumper crop of piebald babies.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 30, 2017
Ms. Bagnold’s story was about Velvet Brown, a working-class English girl who won an unwanted piebald in a village lottery and thrillingly rode it in a major steeplechase.
From New York Times ● Oct. 26, 2015
Robb came back to her on a different horse, riding a piebald gelding in the place of the grey stallion he had taken down into the valley.
From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin
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