skewbald

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Piebald, skewbald or spavined, Britain's first national campaign in 3� years loped toward this week's Election Day with small enthusiasm.

From Time Magazine Archive

It's this cantankerous skewbald that started the tantrum.

From Horses Nine Stories of Harness and Saddle by Ford, Sewell

But the doctor had proved invincible, as had the Yellow-Knife scout on his skewbald pony, which, for all its meanness of shape and size, had stood up to it all.

From The Heart of Unaga by Cullum, Ridgwell

In fact, so pleased did the skewbald seem with his new friends that he refused to stir from the melee into which an unforeseen chance had plunged him.

From Dead Souls by Hogarth, D. J.

Tallantire drove his spurs into a rampant skewbald stallion with china- blue eyes, and settled himself for the forty-mile ride to Fort Ziar.

From Life's Handicap by Kipling, Rudyard