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usually uncountable, plural brindles
A streaky colouration in animals. examples
An animal so coloured. quotations examples
I snatch at the puppy closest to me, the brindle, which is limp in my hand, and shove it down my shirt.
2011, Jesmyn Ward, Salvage the Bones, Bloomsbury (2017), page 235
comparative more brindle, superlative most brindle
Having such a colouration; brindled. quotations examples
It is brindle. Stripes of black and brown ride its ribs like a zebra’s.
2011, Jesmyn Ward, Salvage the Bones, Bloomsbury (2017), page 18
third-person singular simple present brindles, present participle brindling, simple past and past participle brindled
To form streaks of a different color. quotations examples
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, The Metropolitan - Volume 30, page 226
It is the perfect opposition of dark and light that brindles the tiger with gold flame and dark flame.
1925, D.H. Lawrence, Reflections on the Death of Porcupine and Other Essays
The darkest areas (the points) may brindle or become bleached by brilliant sunlight, especially in chocolate and white points.
1993, Peter Warner, Perfect Cats, page 78