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# piebald

«piebald» in Mova's school dictionary: **Of a horse or other animal: having large patches of two…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (piebald); noun (a piebald, piebalds)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Of a horse or other animal: having large patches of two colours, usually black and white. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/piebald/#m1)

2) (noun) A piebald horse or pony. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/piebald/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

Used in stories and about horses and ponies, and in nature lessons about animal colours. Gypsy and Traveller horses are often piebald or skewbald (brown and white). In stories it helps the reader picture an animal.

### examples

- The children rode a piebald pony. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/piebald/#x1)
- A piebald horse stood in the field. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/piebald/#x2)
- Our cat is piebald, black and white. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/piebald/#x3)
- The travellers' piebald horses grazed by the road. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/piebald/#x4)
- She drew a piebald pony with big patches. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/piebald/#x5)
- The circus had a piebald horse with a white face. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/piebald/#x6)
- Then he changed the old mare into a brisk, piebald palfrey. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/piebald/#x7)

### note

Piebald = black and white patches; skewbald = white with brown or another colour. Pie- comes from the magpie, a black and white bird.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «piebald» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/piebald/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.