From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Piebald \Pie"bald'\, adjective [Pie the party-colored bird + bald.]
1. Having spots and patches of black and white, or other colors; mottled; pied. ''A piebald steed of Thracian strain.'' --Dryden.
2. Fig.: Mixed. ''Piebald languages.'' --Hudibras.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
adjective
1: having sections or patches colored differently and usually brightly; "a jester dressed in motley"; "the painted desert"; "a particolored dress"; "a piebald horse"; "pied daisies" [syn: {motley}, {calico}, {multicolor}, {multicolour}, {multicolored}, {multicoloured}, {painted}, {particolored}, {particoloured}, {pied}, {varicolored}, {varicoloured}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
24 Moby Thesaurus words for "piebald": bay, bayard, buckskin, calico, calico pony, chestnut, clouded, dapple, dapple-gray, dappled, dun, gray, grizzle, marbled, motley, mottled, paint, painted pony, pepper-and-salt, pied, pinto, roan, skewbald, sorrel
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