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This week's theme Words derived from birds This week's words columbarium pied roustabout crestfallen canard Today's word in Visual Thesaurus The Pied Piper Detail of a watercolor painting made from the glass window in Market Church, Hameln/Hamelin, Germany (Photo: Wikipedia) Discuss Feedback RSS/XML A.Word.A.Day with Anu Garg pied PRONUNCIATION: (rhymes with pride) MEANING: adjective: Having patches of two or more colors; multicolored. ETYMOLOGY: From pie (magpie), referring to a magpie's black and white plumage, from Latin pica (jay or magpie). The Pied Piper of legend owes his moniker to his multicolored attire. USAGE: "The pair of women came first, one strangely dressed, in pied clothes of three or four eras." Michael Chabon; The Mysteries of Pittsburgh; William Morrow; 1988. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: It is not how old you are, but how you are old. -Jules Renard, writer (1864-1910)

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