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piebald

/pahy-bawld/US // ˈpaɪˌbɔld //UK // (ˈpaɪˌbɔːld) //

骓不逝兮可奈何,长颈鹿

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : having patches of black and white or of other colors; parti-colored.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a piebald animal, especially a horse.

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Examples

  • To nobody else in that company was the pretty, piebald pony worth even half so much money.

  • They saw a number of ponies tied at one end of the camp, and among them they identified the piebald and the roan.

  • You may wish on a row of empty barrels, or on a piebald horse, but you must not look on the object a second time.

  • The piebald sniffed at the honeycomb, then jerked up its head to watch him suspiciously.

  • When he threw another bit, the piebald hippogriff wheeled away, but returned almost at once and ate it.