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

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

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 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

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