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1965, Susan Cooper, Over Sea, Under Stone, page 20:
"Well, isn't that just like a girl. All this round you, and you only see a bit of dust. It'll brush off." He patted ineffectually at his piebald shirt.
2001, Michel Faber, Under the Skin, page 4:
Usually, however, the hitcher was standing exactly where she'd first passed him, his arm perhaps just marginally less erect, his clothing (if rain was setting in) just that little bit more piebald.
2011, Stanley Coren, Sarah Hodgson, Understanding Your Dog For Dummies:
The classic example of a piebald dog is the Dalmatian.
1839, Charles Hodge, Henry Boynton Smith, “The Origin and Variations of the English Language”, in The Biblical Repertory and Princeton Review, volume XI, page 544:
And at the present day, the wanton introduction of scientific terms from the Greek and Latin, and of phrases from the French, threatens to render our tongue still more piebald, heterogeneous and unwieldy.
1864, T. E. Espin, Supply and Training of Ministers, in Church of England, Report of the Proceedings of the Church Congress , page 67:
Hence you will make the piebald Church more piebald than ever.
1970, “Time”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), volume 95, page 67:
Out there on the stage is the largest — and most piebald — rock band in captivity.
1918, William Henry Hudson, Far Away and Long Ago, page 91:
Our neighbour's fancy was for piebald horses, and so strong was it that he wished not to have any one-coloured animals in his herd, despite the fact that he bred horses for sale and that piebalds were not so popular as horses of a more normal colouring.
