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pinto

UK/ˈpɪntəʊ/US/ˈpɪntoʊ/
nounC1Occasional — familiar, but not everyday · #8,945 of 15,258leans written

Other forms: pintos

A pinto is a horse marked in patches of white and another colour. A pinto pony, ride the pinto, a pinto mare.

It is a colour pattern rather than a breed, so a pinto can be almost any breed underneath. The word is American and from Spanish; Britain says piebald for black and white and skewbald for any other colour with white.

Definitions of pinto

  1. 1nounpintoA horse marked in patches of white and another colour.C1

    “The little girl chose the pinto from the herd because she loved its patchy coat.”

pinto is a horse.

Where it comes from

Spanish pinto means painted or mottled, from Latin pingere, to paint.

  1. Spanish

    pinto — painted, mottled

  2. English, today

    pinto

Spanish pinto (“painted, mottled”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

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pinto in the wild

  • Consisting of rice and beans as a base, gallo pinto is important to both Nicaragua and Costa Rica, both of which consider it a national dish.

    Gallo pinto

  • The beans in gallo pinto are cooked with garlic, oregano and onion.

    Gallo pinto

  • A pinto horse has a coat color that consists of large patches of white and any other color.

    Pinto horse

  • A pinto horse may also have a combination of these patterns, such as tovero.

    Pinto horse

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.