| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| skewbald |
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| SYLLABICATION: | skew·bald |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  sky  bôld |
| ADJECTIVE: | Having spots or patches of white on a coat of a color other than black: a skewbald horse. | | NOUN: | A skewbald animal, especially a horse. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Middle English skeued, of mixed colors (probably from skeu, sky, cloud, of Scandinavian origin; see (s)keu- in Appendix I) + bald.
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