pinto

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish pinto (“painted, mottled”).

noun

1. A horse with a patchy coloration that includes white.
   Chick Norris leaned low over his pinto. 1936 August, Joseph S. Fleming, “Flying Hoofs. Chick Norris again leads his Mounted Patrol”, in Boys' Life, page 10

adj

1. Pied, mottled.
   While Profane, dreamy, went on to tell of his nights with the Alligator Patrol, and how he’d hunted one pinto beast through Fairing’s Parish; cornered and killed it in a chamber lit by some frightening radiance. 1963, Thomas Pynchon, V.