piebald

Adjective

WordNet 3.0

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”Synonyms: motley calico multicolor multi-color multicolour multi-colour multicolored multi-colored multicoloured multi-coloured painted particolored particoloured pied varicolored varicoloured

Piebald \Pie"bald`\, a. [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. [1913 Webster]

2.Fig.: Mixed. "Piebald languages." --Hudibras. [1913 Webster]