piebald
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A woman presented a piebald English bulldog, the Drake mascot, and Harris gamely crouched on the floor, scratching his belly, till the handler excused him, saying, “He smells food.”
From The New Yorker ● Jul. 15, 2019
In spite of honey-and-gold weather, only 26,623 of Ebbets Field’s 32,500 seats were occupied, and there were wide, piebald patches of untented pews in left field.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 31, 2019
Leucistic deer, also called piebald, have normal pigmented noses, hooves and eyes and can be everything from partly white to full-on white.
From Washington Times ● Apr. 14, 2018
The moose wasn’t an albino either, according to National Geographic, but it had a partial form of leucism called piebald — where only specks of colors remain.
From The Verge ● Sep. 17, 2017
The next day they set out in a buggy pulled by two piebald horses.
From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead
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