Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Properly, of a gray or tawny color marked with bars or streaks of a darker hue; brindled: applied more loosely to any animal having a hide variegated by streaks or spots, and by Milton to the lioness, whose hide is of a nearly uniform hue: as, “the brinded cat,”
- “three brinded cows,”
- In heraldry, spotted: said of a beast used as a bearing.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of a gray or tawny color with streaks of darker hue; streaked; brindled.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective archaic
brindled ; having a streaky or patchy pattern, usually grey or brown in colour; used especially to describe the skin or fur of animals.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having a grey or brown streak or a pattern or a patchy coloring; used especially of the patterned fur of cats
Etymologies
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Examples
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One witch said, “Thrice the brinded cat hath mewed.”
Something Wicked 2010
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Thrice the brinded cat hath mewed, but still no joy.
Rambles at starchamber.com » Blog Archive » IP networking and murderous rage 2005
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They have a race of brinded greyhounds, larger and stronger than those with which we course hares, and those are the only dogs used by them for the chase.
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Thrice the brinded cat hath mewed, and now she threatens to have me up before the matron.
The Christian A Story Hall Caine 1892
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Then slowly the hills are brinded until the rains come again, when verdure and bloom again peer through the tawny wreck of the last year's greenery.
Canyons of the Colorado John Wesley Powell 1868
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They have a race of brinded greyhounds, larger and stronger than those with which we course hares, and those are the only dogs used by them for the chase.
Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland Samuel Johnson 1746
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It is not a commonly used word and the only definition I can find for brinded is, "gray or tawny with darker streaks or spots."
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It is not a commonly used word and the only definition I can find for brinded is, "gray or tawny with darker streaks or spots."
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It is not a commonly used word and the only definition I can find for brinded is, "gray or tawny with darker streaks or spots."
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Painted like bears, and wolves, and brinded tigers.
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