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

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

I first made Billy's acquaintance in the Row, where a capable groom was teaching him to ride a very small skewbald pony.

From The Delectable Duchy by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir

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

They passed a skewbald sign-post crowded with unfamiliar goblin names, and a dry tree from which once depended, Trewhella assured them, the bodies of three notorious smugglers.

From Carnival by MacKenzie, Compton