having sections or patches colored differently and usually brightly; "a jester dressed in motley"; "the painted desert"; "a particolored dress"; "a piebald horse"; "pied daisies"
A piebald animal has patches of black and white on it. a piebald pony. a piebald animal has black and white areas on its body (pie ( MAGPIE) + bald)
Party-coloured A corruption of pie-balled, speckled like a pie The words Ball, Dun, and Favel are frequently given as names to cows “Ball” means the cow with a mark on its face; “Dun” means the cow of a dun or brownish-yellow colour; and “Favel” means the bay cow (Ball, in Gaelic, means a mark; ballach, speckled )