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.”
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Thrice the brinded cat hath mewed, but still no joy.
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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.
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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.
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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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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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