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brinded, a. arch.|ˈbrɪndɪd|
Forms: 5 brende, 5–8 brended, 7 breended, 6– brinded.
[Primary form app. brended, whence on one side branded, q.v., on the other brinded. Brende, which occurs in Lydgate, is identical with one of the contemporary forms of burnt, burned (see burn v.); nevertheless, taken with the fuller brended, it points to a secondary vb. brend-en, a possible derivative of brand ‘burning, brand’. The sense appears to be ‘marked as by burning’ or ‘branding’. Prof. Skeat compares Icel. bröndóttr brindled, f. brand fire-brand.]
Of a tawny or brownish colour, marked with bars or streaks of a different hue; also gen. streaked, spotted; brindled.
1430Lydg. Min. Poems 202 On them she wyl have a bonde, As weel of bayard as of brende [rime-wd. rende] And yit for sorelle she wyl stonde. 1496Bk. St. Albans, Fysshynge 28 A grete brended flye that bredith in pathes of medowes. 1589Greene Menaph. (Arb.) 86 Ah, Doron..thou art as white As is my mothers Calfe, or brinded Cow. 1605Shakes. Macb. iv. i. 1 Thrice the brinded Cat hath mew'd. 1611Cotgr., Quatroillé, diuersified, pide, or breended, streaked with one colour vpon another. 1621Markham Prev. Hunger (1655) 54 Your brended Cattell haue euer the goodliest Heads. 1667Milton P.L. vii. 466 The Tawnie Lion..Rampant shakes his Brinded main. 1717Tickell Epist. Wks. (1807) 117 Thy brinded boars may slumber undismay'd. 1774Johnson West. Isl. Wks. X. 416 They have a race of brinded greyhounds. 1820Shelley Witch Atl. vii, The brinded lioness led forth her young. |