单词 | brinded |
释义 | brindedadj. archaic. Of a tawny or brownish colour, marked with bars or streaks of a different hue; also gen. streaked, spotted; brindled. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > variegation > stripiness > [adjective] > streaked brinded1430 straked1537 branded1561 flaked1577 pencilled1592 streaked1600 brandy1608 striated1646 straky1650 bestreakeda1658 tabby1665 whipped1673 brindle1676 brindled1678 striate1678 rowy1742 streaky1747 virgated1803 roded1841 fibrilloso-striate1846 roey1850 tabbied1861 rody1864 1430 J. Lydgate Minor Poems 202 On them she wyl have a bonde, As weel of bayard as of brende [rhyme-wd. rende] And yit for sorelle she wyl stonde. 1496 Treat. Fysshynge wyth Angle in Bk. St. Albans (rev. ed.) sig. ijv A grete brended flye that bredith in pathes of medowes. 1589 R. Greene Menaphon sig. K3v Ah Doron,..thou art as white, As is my mothers Calfe or brinded Cow. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Quatroillé, diuersified, pide, or breended, streaked with one colour vpon another. a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) iv. i. 1 Thrice the brinded Cat hath mew'd. View more context for this quotation 1621 G. Markham Hunger's Prevent. (1655) 54 Your brended Cattell haue euer the goodliest Heads. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost vii. 466 The Tawnie Lion..Rampant shakes his Brinded main. View more context for this quotation 1717 T. Tickell Epist. from Lady to Gent. at Avignon in Wks. (1807) 117 Thy brinded boars may slumber undismay'd. 1775 S. Johnson Journey W. Islands 188 They have a race of brinded greyhounds. a1822 P. B. Shelley Witch of Atlas vii, in Posthumous Poems (1824) 31 The brinded lioness led forth her young. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < |
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