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

That done, he addressed himself to the skewbald again.

From Dead Souls by Hogarth, D. J.

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

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

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 Seaman, Owen, Sir