Crossword clues for brindled
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Brindled \Brin"dled\, a. [A dim. form of brinded.]
Having dark streaks or spots on a gray or tawny ground;
brinded. ``With a brindled lion played.''
--Churchill.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"marked with streaks, streaked with a dark color," 1670s, from Middle English brended (early 15c.), from bren "brown color" (13c.), noun made from past participle of brennen "burn" (see burn (v.)); the derived adjective perhaps means "marked as though by branding or burning." Form altered perhaps by influence of kindled.
Wiktionary
a. of a brownish, tawny or gray colour, with streaks or spots; streaky, spotted
WordNet
Usage examples of "brindled".
The animals were of the brindled variety, and each was garnished with a steel spiked collar.
In the low gravity, the motion spread his hair around his head like a brindled halo.
Lelila wondered if the brindled chestnut hand on her arm had also borne a slave mark.
As Leia left the dormitory with Jaina and Jacen, several of the little ones climbed out of bed and scampered to the Wookiee, to cuddle against his brindled fur.
It was lined with brindled fur, and with the toe of his boot he spread it out until it covered the patchy grass next to them.
The second stall was empty, filled with fresh straw, ready for the brindled cow and her tardy calf.
He rose and walked around the brindled heifer, squatting down and squinting at her tail.
He nodded approvingly at the sow, then glanced at the brindled heifer.
A gray brindled tomcat perched on the back of the seat and regarded him with a superior smirk, whiskers quivering.
If the demonic Black Dog appeared to herald the death of a member of some noble families, what more appropriate Bane of the Emersons could there be than a large, brindled Egyptian cat?
Vincey and his cat came in together, the great brindled feline leashed and walking beside his master like .
Directly below them crouched a Great Dane, brindled, enormous, one eye fixed sternly on the window.
Thoreau cocked one brindled ear cannily and rapped sharply with his tail on the piazza floor, but there was no other answer to the call.
It was a brindled, mountainy roan, its coat all patchy with sweat, its miserable flanks still shuddering.
The knowledge we may acquire in the course of such a discussion will necessarily stand in the same relation to the truth as the black peacock spot produced intraoptically by pressure on the palpebra does in regard to a garden path brindled with genuine sunlight.