Definition of "skewbald" [skew•bald]

• Having spots or patches of white on a coat of a color other than black: a skewbald horse. (adjective)
• A skewbald animal, especially a horse. (noun)

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• "So how, precisely, do I find myself the father of a teenage owner of one 5-year-old, skewbald, equine quadruped, about 13 hands tall, who answers, rather inattentively, to the name Buttons?"
• "So how, precisely, do I find myself the father of a teenage owner of one five-year-old, skewbald, equine quadruped, about 13 hands tall, who answers, rather inattentively, to the name Buttons?"
• "The horse was a skewbald mare, and she patterned up so well with the snow and the trees and the patches of open ground that she appeared to be melting into them."