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Animal streaked with a darker color
Answer for the clue "Animal streaked with a darker color ", 7 letters:
brindle
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Brindle is a surname. Notable people with the name include: Arran Brindle (born 1981), English cricketer, member of the England Women's team Dave Brindle , Canadian broadcast journalist and producer Frederick Brindle (born 1909), English professional rugby ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Brindle \Brin"dle\, a. Brindled.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. having a gray or brown streak or a pattern or a patchy coloring; used especially of the patterned fur of cats [syn: brindled , brinded , tabby ]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1670s; see brindled .
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. Having such a colouration; brindled n. 1 A streaky colouration in animals. 2 An animal so coloured.
Usage examples of brindle.
Next to her, she saw one of the nicer young men of the group, Robb Brindle, sitting with a relieved look on his dark brown face.
Tasia took off her helmet and turned away to hide her grin, but Robb Brindle saw it and shared the smile with her.
Tasia accompanied Robb Brindle into the cold, harshly lit room constructed in a domed-over crater.
With Brindle keeping close pace, they raced back to the EDF base, confident they had achieved the best score in the piloting exercise.
Swept along by enthusiasm and her own plans, she gave Robb Brindle a swift, hard hug followed by a startling hot kiss, then rushed off before her grinning friend could react.
Robb Brindle, who had demonstrated effective teamwork with Tasia, was assigned as her first officer, given full command of the Remora squadrons that would bear the brunt of space combat should the hydrogues appear.
Robb Brindle stood beside her, though not too close, because he was on the bridge and she was the platcom.
As they fled toward the orbits of the innermost moons, she saw Robb Brindle and his last four Remoras struggling upward from the fringe of atmosphere, heading toward them.
She dispatched other Remoras to assist him, ushering Brindle and his ships into the Thunderhead landing bay.
It had been a little more than a year since she and Howie Brindle, a few months married, had set off from Bahia Mar in the Trepid to take their sweet long time going around the world.
But old Howie Brindle kept bounding tirelessly, sweating, laughing, yelping, making great saves and going high for the kill.
Pidge made some jokes about exclusivity and about becoming one of the three Brindle women.
And as she explained her incapacity to respond, the picture of the sensuality of Howie Brindle emerged.
Monday I spent a half hour with Howie Brindle before Pidge drove me out to the airport.
Would I, Travis McGee, bring thee, Linda Lewellen Brindle, aboard this houseboat to live herein and hereon, with me, happily, so long as we shall all remain afloat?