Definitions
Streaked or mottled animal coat pattern.
Word origin
Back-formation from brindled, a variant of brinded (“streaked, spotted”), apparently reanalyzed as brindle + -ed. Attested from the late seventeenth century.
Used in a sentence
“I snatch at the puppy closest to me, the brindle, which is limp in my hand, and shove it down my shirt.”
“It is brindle. Stripes of black and brown ride its ribs like a zebra’s.”
“Sorely too as I laboured and toiled, the reward of toil would not come ; already my back began to curve, and my hair to brindle itself with gray, yet I saw no luck before me.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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