piebald
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I especially noticed an enormous number of greys, piebalds, and black horses among the troops; and that the differences of colour are far more frequent among them than with trained horses.
From The Backwoodsman or, Life on the Indian Frontier by Various
My latest recollections of La Tapera are concerned more with Demetria than the piebalds.
From Far Away and Long Ago by Hudson, W. H. (William Henry)
There were reds, and piebalds, and duns, and browns, and brindles, short horns, long horns, crumpled horns and no horns.
From Around The Tea-Table by Talmage, T. De Witt (Thomas De Witt)
The other Blue, with the piebalds, was not close in to the leaders, but fairly well out and about a length behind.
From Andivius Hedulio Adventures of a Roman Nobleman in the Days of the Empire by White, Edward Lucas
The stallions were all piebalds, but many of the brood mares were white, as he had discovered that he could get as good if not better results from keeping white as well as pie-bald mares.
From Far Away and Long Ago by Hudson, W. H. (William Henry)
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