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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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
The dog was described as a reverse brindle: blue and gray in color with a white chest.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 31, 2022
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
Four years ago, the San Francisco 49ers bought Zoe, a black brindle Frenchie that serves as the team’s emotional support dog.
From New York Times ● Jun. 23, 2022
The family sat huddled around the only table in the house, with Dusty, their brindle hound, curled underneath.
From "Stella by Starlight" by Sharon M. Draper
Trimont Roman Champion Lord Derby Remember, in closing this chapter, that as “eternal vigilance is the price of liberty,” so the eternal admixtures of colors is the price of rich 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
There were reds, and piebalds, and duns, and browns, and brindles, short horns, long horns, crumpled horns and no horns.
From Around The Tea-Table by T. De Witt (Thomas De Witt) Talmage
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
The pups from these matings will come practically seventy-five per cent. medium seal 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
Next come the darker and lighter greys or brindles, the darkest being generally preferred.
From Dogs and All about Them by Robert Leighton
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