单词 | piedness |
释义 | piednessn. Now rare. The quality of being pied or particoloured. ΘΚΠ 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). < n.1588 |
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