How to pronounce skewbald

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What skewbald means

adjective

Of a horse, patched with white and a color besides black

In a sentence: The skewbald pony had big white patches on its chestnut-brown coat.

Where it comes from: It joins skew and bald, an old word that here means marked with patches of white.

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