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Word entry · 7 letters

brindle

Best crossword clue

"Streaked coat pattern"

7 letters · collected on this word page

7 lettersPart of speech adjectiveSorted bdeilnrStarts with BEnds with E1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. 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.

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