piebald

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Connor has created a soft-focus community that reads like a contemporary Grover’s Corners with its quirky assortment of kind adults and its cozy woodland setting populated with songbirds and even a fabled piebald deer.

From New York Times • Feb. 11, 2022

In spite of honey-and-gold weather, only 26,623 of Ebbets Field’s 32,500 seats were occupied, and there were wide, piebald patches of untented pews in left field.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 31, 2019

The moose wasn’t an albino either, according to National Geographic, but it had a partial form of leucism called piebald — where only specks of colors remain.

From The Verge • Sep. 17, 2017

The breeders of Prim’Holsteins—the archetypal piebald dairy cow, responsible for eighty per cent of France’s milk supply—were almost apologetic about the imperative of causing a ruckus.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 4, 2016

The young pigs were piebald, and as Napoleon was the only boar on the farm, it was possible to guess at their parentage.

From "Animal Farm: A Fairy Story" by George Orwell