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piebald
"of two different colors," 1589, formed from
pie
(2) "magpie" +
bald
"spotted, white" (see
bald
), on analogy of the black-and-white plumage of the magpie. Hence, "of mixed character, mongrel." Technically only of black-and-white colorings.
