BRINDLED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does brindled mean? 

• BRINDLED (adjective)
  The adjective BRINDLED has 1 sense:

1. having a grey or brown streak or a pattern or a patchy coloring; used especially of the patterned fur of cats

  Familiarity information: BRINDLED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BRINDLED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having a grey or brown streak or a pattern or a patchy coloring; used especially of the patterned fur of cats

Synonyms:

brinded; brindle; brindled; tabby

Similar:

patterned (having patterns (especially colorful patterns))

 Context examples 

A terrible sob shook his great frame, and he clutched his throat under his brindled beard.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The spots can be black, brown (liver), lemon, dark blue, tri colored, brindled, solid white, or sable.

(Dalmatian, NCI Thesaurus)

And there, in the middle of it, was the man himself—his face twisted like a lost soul in torment, and his great brindled beard stuck upward in his agony.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The brindled hair and the rounded back gave the impression of advanced age, and it was only the dark brows and the bright alert eyes glancing out from beneath them which made me doubt whether it was really an old man who stood before us.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)