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pied

/pahyd/US // paɪd //UK // (paɪd) //

矮胖的,矮胖子,矮胖,深色的

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : having patches of two or more colors, as various birds and other animals: a pied horse.
    • : wearing pied clothing.

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Examples

  • Many units sit empty even when buildings sell out, owing to rich buyers who are just looking for another pied-à-terre or, more nefariously, to money launderers seeking an easy way to wash their cash.

  • People are still far more likely to buy a million dollar pied à terre in Manhattan than to do so in Oklahoma City.

  • He was the Pied Piper of life and brought joy to everyone he knew.

  • For instance: after getting pied, you could taste some of it and make a face that says “Hmm, not bad!”

  • These men are like avian pied pipers" who lure problem birds out of the trees and "send them spiraling over the sloughs.

  • Sarah Palin and Rush Limbaugh are the Pied Pipers of the Republican Party.

  • A second version of the False Claimant story is found in Le cerf au pied blanc.

  • Liszt is a poet, not a chronicler; he must be read as such, and not be taken au pied de la lettre.

  • It varies indifferently from a yellowish brown to a pied, and from a pied to a white.

  • "No one is fair when hunting the pied-à-terre," I reminded her.

  • Cessons donc de nous esbahir s'ils ont un pied en l'air et l'œil en la campagne.