skewbald
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Horses of all colours, which only the richness of the Hungarian language can find names for: bay, grey, black, white-faced, piebald, dappled, chestnut, flea-bitten, strawberry, skewbald, roan, cream-coloured, and, what is rarest among foals, milk-white.
From The Yellow Rose by M?r J?kai
Meanwhile the skewbald snuffed curiously at his new acquaintances as they stood planted on either side of him; while the ladies in the vehicle regarded the scene with an expression of terror.
From Dead Souls by D. J. Hogarth
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 Herbert George Jenkins
It's this cantankerous skewbald that started the tantrum.
From Horses Nine Stories of Harness and Saddle by Sewell Ford
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
