piebald

adj

1. Spotted or blotched, especially in black and white.

   “"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.”

   “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.”

   “The classic example of a piebald dog is the Dalmatian.”

2. (figuratively)Of mixed character, heterogeneous.

   “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.”

   “Hence you will make the piebald Church more piebald than ever.”

   “Out there on the stage is the largest — and most piebald — rock band in captivity.”

noun

1. An animal with piebald coloration.

   “Our neighbour's fancy was for piebald horses, and so strong was it that he wished not to have any one-coloured animals in his herd, despite the fact that he bred horses for sale and that piebalds were not so popular as horses of a more normal colouring.”