pied

pied ¹  (pd)

adj.

Patchy in color; splotched or piebald.

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[Middle English, from pie, magpie; see pie².]

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pied ²  (pd)

v. Printing

Past tense and past participle of pi².

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pied [paɪd]

adj

(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Zoology) having markings of two or more colours

[from pie²; an allusion to the magpie's black-and-white colouring]

Thesaurus

Adj.

1.

pied - 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" multi-color, multi-colored, multi-colour, multi-coloured, multicolor, multicolored, multicolour, multicoloured, particolored, particoloured, piebald, varicolored, varicoloured, calico, motley, painted colored, coloured, colorful - having color or a certain color; sometimes used in combination; "colored crepe paper"; "the film was in color"; "amber-colored heads of grain"

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pied

adjective variegated, spotted, streaked, irregular, flecked, motley, mottled, dappled, multicoloured, piebald, parti-coloured, varicoloured a bird with pied markings

Translations

pied [paɪd] ADJ [horse] → pío, picazo; [bird] → pinto
the Pied Piper of Hamelin → el flautista de Hamelin

pied

adj → gescheckt, gefleckt; the Pied Piper of Hamelin → der Rattenfänger von Hameln