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

That skewbald, barin—you might think it well to sell him, seeing that he is nothing but a rascal?

From Dead Souls by Hogarth, D. J.

Outside the station was a carriage with four horses, a piebald, a skewbald, a white, and another horse that seemed to have set out in life with a determination to be pink.

From Bindle Some Chapters in the Life of Joseph Bindle by Jenkins, Herbert George

Horses of all colours, which only the richness of the Hungarian language can find names for: bay, grey, black, white-faced, piebald, dappled, chestnut, flea-bitten, strawberry, skewbald, roan, cream-coloured, and, what is rarest among foals, milk-white.

From The Yellow Rose by J?kai, M?r

Among the rarer birds which are now on the market to compensate us may be mentioned the bobolink, the dwarf cassowary, the Bombay duckling and the skewbald fintail.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, April 15, 1914 by Seaman, Owen, Sir