piebald

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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

Ms. Bagnold’s story was about Velvet Brown, a working-class English girl who won an unwanted piebald in a village lottery and thrillingly rode it in a major steeplechase.

From New York Times • Oct. 26, 2015

His fierce eye gazed out across the mighty army: black rats, brown rats, grey rats, piebald rats, skulking weasels, furtive stoats and sinuous ferrets, all gathered round, their weapons glistening and dripping with the rain.

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques