skewbald
Americanadjective
noun
adjective
noun
Etymology
Origin of skewbald
Example Sentences
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They passed a skewbald sign-post crowded with unfamiliar goblin names, and a dry tree from which once depended, Trewhella assured them, the bodies of three notorious smugglers.
From Carnival by Compton MacKenzie
I first made Billy's acquaintance in the Row, where a capable groom was teaching him to ride a very small skewbald pony.
From The Delectable Duchy by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
But the doctor had proved invincible, as had the Yellow-Knife scout on his skewbald pony, which, for all its meanness of shape and size, had stood up to it all.
From The Heart of Unaga by Ridgwell Cullum
That skewbald, barin—you might think it well to sell him, seeing that he is nothing but a rascal?
From Dead Souls by D. J. Hogarth
Outside the station was a carriage with four horses, a piebald, a skewbald, a white, and another horse that seemed to have set out in life with a determination to be pink.
From Bindle Some Chapters in the Life of Joseph Bindle by Herbert George Jenkins
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