Definition of "pied" [pied]

• Patchy in color; splotched or piebald. (adjective)
• Printing Past tense and past participle of pi2. (verb)

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• "A single case of type stood on a rack and the form of a bill-of-fare -- partly "pied" -- was on a marble slab which formed the top of a small table."
• "Maybe removing the whiteface platinum pearl hen from her yellow-white albino mate (also called pied) caused the disruption."
• "A gendarme a pied was the only person near me, and I asked him, if he could explain the reason of the movement."