brindle

Meanings

Noun

A streaky colouration in animals.
An animal so coloured.

Adjective

Having such a colouration; brindled

Verb

To form streaks of a different color.

Related

Similar words

tabby (in cats)

Origin

, a variant of brinded, apparently reanalyzed as brindle + -ed. Attested from the late seventeenth century.

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