Sekirov Dictionary

brindle

noun 2
adjective 1
verb 1
forms 5

noun2

A streaky colouration in animals.
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An animal so coloured.
- I snatch at the puppy closest to me, the brindle, which is limp in my hand, and shove it down my shirt. — 2011

adjective1

•
Having such a colouration; brindled.
- It is brindle. Stripes of black and brown ride its ribs like a zebra’s. — 2011

verb1

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To form streaks of a different color.
- 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. — 1841

forms

brindled · brindling · brindles · more brindle · most brindle

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