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brindled
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective brindled has 1 sense
- brindled(s = adj.all) brinded, brindle, tabby - having a grey or brown streak or a pattern or a patchy coloring; used especially of the patterned fur of cats; Array
CIDE DICTIONARY
brindled, a. [A dim. form of brinded.].
Having dark streaks or spots on a gray or tawny ground; brinded. Churchill. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
brindled, adj. (also brindle) brownish or tawny with streaks of other colour (esp. of domestic animals).
Etymology
earlier brinded, brended f. brend, perh. of Scand. orig.
ROGET THESAURUS
brindled
Variegation
N variegation, colors, dichroism, trichroism, iridescence, play of colors, polychrome, maculation, spottiness, striae, spectrum, rainbow, iris, tulip, peacock, chameleon, butterfly, tortoise shell, mackerel, mackerel sky, zebra, leopard, cheetah, nacre, ocelot, ophite, mother-of-pearl, opal, marble, check, plaid, tartan, patchwork, marquetry-, parquetry, mosaic, tesserae, strigae, chessboard, checkers, chequers, harlequin, Joseph's coat, tricolor, variegated, many-colored, many-hued, divers-colored, party- colored, dichromatic, polychromatic, bicolor, tricolor, versicolor, of all the colors of the rainbow, of all manner of colors, kaleidoscopic, iridescent, opaline, opalescent, prismatic, nacreous, pearly, shot, gorge de pigeon, chatoyant, irisated, pavonine, pied, piebald, motley, mottled, marbled, pepper and salt, paned, dappled, clouded, cymophanous, mosaic, tesselated, plaid, tortoise shell, spotted, spotty, punctated, powdered, speckled, freckled, flea-bitten, studded, flecked, fleckered, striated, barred, veined, brinded, brindled, tabby, watered, grizzled, listed, embroidered, daedal, naevose, stipiform, strigose, striolate, (iii) PERCEPTIONS OF LIGHT.
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