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Multicolour vs Piebald - What's the difference?

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Multicolour is a related term of piebald.


As adjectives the difference between multicolour and piebald

is that multicolour is while piebald is spotted or blotched, especially in black and white.

As a noun piebald is

an animal with piebald coloration.

multicolour

English

Adjective

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  • piebald

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Spotted or blotched, especially in black and white.
  • * 1965 , , 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.
  • (figuratively) Of mixed character, heterogeneous.
  • * 1839 , Charles Hodge, Henry Boynton Smith, 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 , ''Report of the Proceedings of the Church Congress [1863] , page 67:
  • Hence you will make the piebald' Church more ' piebald than ever.
  • * 1970 , , Volume 95, page 67:
  • Out there on the stage is the largest — and most piebald — rock band in captivity.

    Coordinate terms

    * variegated

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An animal with piebald coloration.
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