piebald horse
- noun
- /ˈpaɪbɔld hɔrs/
:
caballo pío
- The farmer proudly showed off his piebald horse, whose striking black-and-white coat was a crowd favorite.
Examples
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The white patch of hair made her look like a nervous piebald horse.
Fiction book (1998) -
I overtopped the emperor himself, who was only a slack-jawed stripling on a piebald horse!
Fiction book (1997) -
During the parade, a lively piebald horse trotted elegantly, delighting the spectators with its unique markings.
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She admired the beauty of a piebald horse grazing peacefully in the sunny meadow.
Synonyms
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An animal that has large black and white patches on its fur, often a horse
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase is a straightforward adjective + noun combination: 'piebald' describes a two‑color patchy coat and 'horse' names the animal, so the combined meaning ('a horse with irregular patches of two colors') is directly derivable. This follows the common cross‑linguistic pattern of color/appearance modifiers plus animal nouns, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will understand it.
Etymology
Piebald horse comes from the bird 'pie' (the black-and-white magpie) and an old use of bald meaning a white patch. That picture of a magpie's black-and-white feathers helps you remember that a piebald horse is a horse with large 'black and white' patches.