piebald

“[…] she kept several piebald mice and a restless revolving squirrel.”

“This figure was clad in tweeds of a piebald check, with a pink tie, a sharp collar and protuberant yellow boots.”

“And at the present day, the wanton introduction of scientific terms from the Greek and Latin, and of phrases from the French, threatens to render our tongue still more piebald, heterogeneous and unwieldy.”

“Hence you will make the piebald Church more piebald than ever.”

“Our neighbour's fancy was for piebald horses, and so strong was it that he wished not to have any one-coloured animals in his herd, despite the fact that he bred horses for sale and that piebalds were not so popular as horses of a more normal colouring.”

““She always performs really well,” she says, showing me TikToks of her lip-syncing next to Luna, an elderly, noble-looking piebald with mournful brown eyes.”