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motley
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A Game of Thrones
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Generations of capering fools in motley have won me the right to dress badly and say any damn thing that comes into my head.†
p. 56.9 *
The king's own fool, the pie-faced simpleton called Moon Boy, danced about on stilts, all in motley, making mock of everyone with such deft cruelty that Sansa wondered if he was simple after all.†
p. 299.4
A wooden platform had been built to elevate Robert's chair; there the Lord of the Eyrie sat, giggling and clapping his hands as a humpbacked puppeteer in blue-and-white motley made two wooden knights hack and slash at each other.†
p. 434.5
I had thought you were the one made for motley, Tyrion, but it would appear that I was wrong.†
p. 768.3

Definitions:

(1) (motley)
consisting of a haphazard assortment of different kinds of a thing -- sometimes implying that the collection does not go well together and is of low quality
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)
Motley can refer specifically to different colors or a multicolored woolen fabric woven of mixed threads in 14th to 17th century England; or to a court jester's costume made of such fabric. This sense of the word is still reasonably common in the expression motley fool which refers to a jester in such garb.