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pin·to

 (pĭn′tō)
n. pl. pin·tos or pin·toes
A horse with patchy markings of white and another color.
adj.
Mottled; pied.

[Spanish, piebald, spotted, from Vulgar Latin *pīnctus, past participle of Latin pingere, to paint; see peig- in Indo-European roots.]
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Its letters, although naturally lying Like the knight Pinto -- Mendez Ferdinando -- Still form a synonym for Truth -- Cease trying!
McGinty glanced his eyes over the account of the shooting of one Jonas Pinto, in the Lake Saloon, Market Street, Chicago, in the New Year week of 1874.
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Weber began working on Die drei Pintos in 1820, but it remained scarcely more than a series of sketches when he died prematurely.
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