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UK
/bɹˈɪndəld/
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ADJECTIVE
- having a grey or brown streak or a pattern or a patchy coloring; used especially of the patterned fur of cats
How To Use brindled In A Sentence
- Steve is approached by a man who wants to buy Mike to fight against a big brindled pit bull. Collecting My Thoughts for the Moment (scratching my head and doing my best James Dean)
- The fur lining the cave was a brindled orange; that of the cat creature too.
- The dog Eli showed her was an ugly thing with wiry brindled hair and a squint. The Bread of Ruth’s Unhappiness « A Fly in Amber
- Within the last two days they had also observed that the gnoo was not of the same sort as the one which they had seen so long, but a variety which Swinton told them was called the brindled gnoo; it was, however, in every other respect the same animal, as to its motions and peculiarities. The Mission
- The fur lining the cave was a brindled orange; that of the cat creature too.
- Lirael always said hello to the visiting dogs, even when they were huge brindled wolfhounds with studded collars. LIRAEL: DAUGHTER OF THE CLAYR
- The person indicated was the one Jarvis had thought of as ` brindled " the night before. A DEATH IN TIME
- Over the 3 years of the series’ life, Leigh-Pemberton covered such diverse creatures as kangaroos, yapoks, banana arts, brindled gnus, wapiti and chamois (the latter gaining much fame as a highly effective window-cleaner)
- In the shape of their bodies and tails, in their general ground colour, and in the "brindled" or tiger-like stripes that could be perceived upon their cheeks, neck, and shoulders. The Bush Boys History and Adventures of a Cape Farmer and his Family
- He's about fifty and he wears huge spectacles with thick tortoiseshell frames to them, like a pair of brindled goggles. WHISTLER IN THE DARK