Talk:Tricoloured horse

Existence of word?

I have not been able to find any mention of this word except in Wikipedia itself (and derivative sources). It does not occur in my copy of the full Oxford English Dictionary (1972), nor in any horse book I can find. I've never heard it used in Britain. I suspect it is a neologism by extension from skewbald, but perhaps used in very limited circles or not at all. Could it be a spoof or a joke-word?

Does anyone have any evidence for real use of this word – and if so, by whom?--Richard New Forest 09:32, 28 October 2007 (UTC)

I actually agree, I have never heard of it either, and I have dozens of books that define the other two terms. It's either totally archaic, or a neologism or a joke. (Some version claims it's a archaic version, but I sure have never heard of it until here, either, but not being a BI expert, I let it go) I vote that we move this article to a new name called "Tri-Coloured" or whatever the correct hyphenation, capitalization and spelling should be, and remove the term Oddbald entirely and replace it with the new article name in the other places it occurs. You want to do it or shall I?? Montanabw^(talk) 01:58, 29 October 2007 (UTC)

Sounds good to me. Let's leave it for a bit and see if anyone else chips in, and then if no contrary evidence turns up, do it. "Tricoloured" might not be right on its own, as we need to avoid a Tricolor disambig, and Tricolour, for flags. Also tricolour for black-and-tan-and-white dogs, which does not have a page now, but might acquire one. "Tricoloured (horse)"?.--Richard New Forest 08:42, 29 October 2007 (UTC)

Maybe dig through your books and see what the most common terminology is in the UK (one word or two, hypenated, etc. The use of "Color (horse)" is pretty common usage in the color articles. Montanabw^(talk) 16:40, 29 October 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for doing the move, I'll fix some of the other links. I see no need to merge with Skewbald now that you have dealt with the title, so will toss the merge tag. Montanabw^(talk) 00:00, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

±~~Tri-coloured is another word for the coat pattern "CALICO". More than likely it is a term coined in the U.S. America which would explain why the Brits have no word for it. It is rare to show up in horses however, the 30-40's star HOOT GIBSON had his horse named Calico, and it very definitely was a calico/tri-coloured coat being patches of white, black and what I'd call orange (more correctly called deep yellow-red chestnut). The last place I saw this horse was in San Antonio, TX, in an exhibit at the "Lone Star Brewery Museum", of coarse it'd died and was mounted in a kicking pose. Looked pretty bedraggled (that was some 35years ago at least) so hopefully it got some restorative work done on it and was put on display somewhere else, maybe near Roy Rogers horse Trigger. Calico is typically and more commonly found on cats. ±

"Calico" is not a typical word used to describe bay pintos in the US; it is occasionally seen colloquially. but this issue has been dead for 8 years now. Montanabw^(talk) 23:55, 12 September 2015 (UTC)