brindled, a.
(ˈbrɪnd(ə)ld)
[A variant of the earlier brinded, prob. by assimilation to such words as kindled, mingled, perh. with some feeling of a diminutive sense.]
‘Streaked, tabby, marked with streaks’ (J.).
| 1678 Lond. Gaz. No. 1328/4 Lost or stolen..a large light brindled gelt Mastiff Dog. 1718 Pope Iliad xi. 378 The brindled lion, or the tusky boar. 1753 Smollett Ct. Fathom (1784) 116/2 His beard..was of a brindled hue. 1817 J. Scott Paris Revisit. (ed. 4) 100 The mustachoes which hid the expression of the human mouth under a brindled tuft of hair. 1870 Edgar Runnymede 186 A brindled bull. 1886 Engineer 1 Oct. 265 The brindled brick trade..is an important Staffordshire industry. |