noun
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a brindled animal
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a brindled colouring
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Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of brindle
First recorded in 1670–80; back formation from brindled
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Today, the only people in the lobby are a group of women with a brindle dachshund who are comparing enneagrams.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 15, 2026
Stewart followed by sharing a "moment of zen" — a video clip of Dipper, a brindle pitbull mix, romping around in the snow.
From Salon ● Mar. 1, 2024
On the page, the bulldog — a gray brindle with a white chest and green eyes — is pictured with a small child and a wrapped Christmas present.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 14, 2022
Jean took a liking to the brindle pit bull, which was too young to be left in a shelter cage until the storm passed, and knew he needed to find the animal a home.
From Fox News ● Sep. 4, 2019
Her father’s gun hung over the door and good old Jack, the brindle bulldog, lay on guard before it.
From "Little House in the Big Woods" by Laura Ingalls Wilder
I watched the brindles chew their cud— The farmer tend his crops.
From Poems for Pale People A Volume of Verse by Edwin Carty Ranck
This he tells, this he brindles and burnishes on a' winter's eves, 'tis his star of set glory, his rejuvenescence to descant upon.
From The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 6 Letters 1821-1842 by Mary Lamb
It will readily be observed that we have bred into the white color, golden, mahogany and seal brindle and this admixture of color will give practically over ninety per cent. of desirable brindles.
From The Boston Terrier and All About It A Practical, Scientific, and Up to Date Guide to the Breeding of the American Dog by Edward Axtell
Blacks, brindles and pied are considered less desirable.
From Dogs and All about Them by Robert Leighton
The colours in order of merit are, first, whole colours and smuts, viz., brindles, reds, white, with their varieties, as whole fawns, fallows, etc., and, secondly, pied and mixed colours.
From Dogs and All about Them by Robert Leighton
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