skewbald
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Five was a skewbald cat and four a plum cake.
From The Passionate Elopement by Compton MacKenzie
Yes, both the bay, the Assessor, and the skewbald accounted residence at Tientietnikov's a most comfortable affair, and voted the oats excellent, and the arrangement of the stables beyond all cavil.
From Dead Souls by D. J. Hogarth
In fact, so pleased did the skewbald seem with his new friends that he refused to stir from the melee into which an unforeseen chance had plunged him.
From Dead Souls by D. J. Hogarth
Among the rarer birds which are now on the market to compensate us may be mentioned the bobolink, the dwarf cassowary, the Bombay duckling and the skewbald fintail.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, April 15, 1914 by Sir Owen Seaman
But the doctor had proved invincible, as had the Yellow-Knife scout on his skewbald pony, which, for all its meanness of shape and size, had stood up to it all.
From The Heart of Unaga by Ridgwell Cullum
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