| 单词 | brindled |
| 释义 | brindled (once / 18439 pages) adj Brindled refers to a pattern of brown or gray markings or streaks on an animal. Picture the brindled hounds running around the race track, or the brindled pit bulls around the hood. A brindled French bulldog named "I'm on Fire" was a group winner at the 2010 Westminster Dog Show. Other breeds of dogs that may have brindled coats include pit bulls, boxers and bull mastiffs, but you can use this word to describe cats, pigs and horses as well. Brindled is a Middle English word related to the word burn and has come to mean the streaky brown and gray color of something burned. WORD FAMILYbrindled USAGE EXAMPLESHe was not an impressive sight: short, barrel-shaped, a bit homely, with brown and white brindled stripes. Slate(May 08, 2014) Anatomical weirdness of the Brindled wildebeest: a down-flexed face, and all those black vertical folds that you haven't paid attention to before. Scientific American(Feb 26, 2014) Indeed, I never saw such a place for bull-dogs--chiefly brindled ones--as Bordeaux. Weyman, Stanley John, When Love Calls(2012) adj having a grey or brown streak or a pattern or a patchy coloring; used especially of the patterned fur of cats Syn brinded, brindle, tabby patterned having patterns (especially colorful patterns) |
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