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- - piculet
  - PID
  - piddle
  - piddling
  - piddock
  - pidgin
  - pie
  - pie chart
  - pie-eyed
  - pie-faced
  - piebald
  - piece
  - pièce de résistance
  - piece goods
  - piece of eight
  - piecemeal
  - piecework
  - pied
  - pied noir
  - Pied Piper
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piebald

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
piebald/ˈpʌɪbɔːld/

▶adjective (of a horse) having irregular patches of two colours, typically black and white. ▶noun a piebald horse.

– origin C16: from pie2 (because of the magpie's black and white plumage) + bald (in the obs. sense ‘streaked with white’).

'piebald' also found in these Oxford entries:

calico - Jacob sheep - paint - pinto - skewbald

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