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单词 piedness
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piednessn.

Brit. /ˈpʌɪdnᵻs/, U.S. /ˈpaɪdnᵻs/
Forms: see pied adj.1 and -ness suffix.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: pied adj.1, -ness suffix.
Etymology: < pied adj.1 + -ness suffix.
Now rare.
The quality of being pied or particoloured.
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the world > matter > colour > variegation > [noun]
variety1555
piedness1588
variegation1646
variegatedness1668
motleyness1819
chequering1847
mackereling1866
sparkiness1868
piebaldness1875
particolouring1880
piebaldism1881
piebalding1886
1588 T. Hariot Briefe Rep. Virginia sig. B3v [Pearls] which for their likenesse and vniformitie in roundnesse, orientnesse, and pidenesse of many colours..were verie fayre and rare.
1635 T. Heywood Hierarchie Blessed Angells iii. 142 Superfluous Fare and Pydenesse in Attyre.
1780 T. Sheridan Gen. Dict. Eng. Lang. Piedness,..variegation, diversity of colour.
1843 Tait's Edinb. Mag. 10 617 By what process goose-berries may be made gigantic, and piccotees enriched with piedness.
1913 W. Bateson Mendel's Princ. Heredity (new ed.) 86 In mice the several degrees of piedness are recessive to each other in the order of the amount of white.
1978 Sci. Amer. Feb. 8/3 The tabby quickly supplanted the ‘Common English cat’, which Aubrey says he well remembers was white with some bluish piedness.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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