pied Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective satellite having sections or patches colored differently and usually brightly
    painted; multi-coloured; varicoloured; multicolour; varicolored; motley; particolored; multi-color; multicolored; multicoloured; multicolor; particoloured; piebald; multi-colored; multi-colour; calico.
    • a jester dressed in motley
    • the painted desert
    • a particolored dress
    • a piebald horse
    • pied daisies

WordNet

Pied
Definitions
  1. imp. & p. p. of Pi, or Pie, v.
Pied adjective
Etymology
From Pie the party-colored bird.
Definitions
  1. Variegated with spots of different colors; party-colored; spotted; piebald. "Pied coats." Burton. "Meadows trim with daisies pied." Milton.

Webster 1913