2. (modifier) pied, flecked - varied with patches of colour. Used for stained glass, e.g. matapihi ōpure (stained glass window).
Ko te tohu whakamaharatanga mōna he matapihi ōpure kei te whare karakia Māori o Moeraki (TTR 1990:352). / There are stained glass windows in the Māori church at Moeraki as a memorial to him.
He tohu whakamaharatanga tēnei mataaho ōpure mō ngā hōia o Ngāti Porou i hinga i te Pakanga Tuatahi o e Ao (Te Ara 2016). / This stained glass window is a memorial to the soldiers of Ngāti Porou who fell in the First World War.
