skewbald

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Piebald, skewbald or spavined, Britain's first national campaign in 3� years loped toward this week's Election Day with small enthusiasm.

From Time Magazine Archive

The skewbald Cappadocian mistook that for a signal to exert himself and for a minute there were ructions while his master reined him in.

From Caesar Dies by Mundy, Talbot

I first made Billy's acquaintance in the Row, where a capable groom was teaching him to ride a very small skewbald pony.

From The Delectable Duchy by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir

Tallantire drove his spurs into a rampant skewbald stallion with china- blue eyes, and settled himself for the forty-mile ride to Fort Ziar.

From Life's Handicap by Kipling, Rudyard

Outside the station was a carriage with four horses, a piebald, a skewbald, a white, and another horse that seemed to have set out in life with a determination to be pink.

From Bindle Some Chapters in the Life of Joseph Bindle by Jenkins, Herbert George