About The Word Pied
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Pied
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What's The Definition Of Pied?
[adj] 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"
Synonyms | Synonyms for Pied: colored | colorful | coloured | in color(p) | motley | multicolor | multicolored | multicolour | multicoloured | painted | particolored | particoloured | piebald | varicolored | varicoloured Related Terms | Find terms related to Pied: See Also | Pied In Webster's Dictionary \Pied\,
imp. & p. p. of {Pi}, or {Pie}, v.
\Pied\, a. [From {Pie} the party-colored bird.] Variegated with spots of different colors; party-colored; spotted; piebald. ``Pied coats.'' --Burton. ``Meadows trim with daisies pied.'' --Milton. {Pied antelope} (Zo["o]l.), the bontebok. {Pied-billed grebe} (Zo["o]l.), the dabchick. {Pied blackbird} (Zo["o]l.), any Asiatic thrush of the genus {Turdulus}. {Pied finch} (Zo["o]l.) (a) The chaffinch. (b) The snow bunting. [Prov. Eng.] {Pied flycatcher} (Zo["o]l.), a common European flycatcher ({Ficedula atricapilla}). The male is black and white. |
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