brindled

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Within the last two days they had also observed that the gnoo was not of the same sort as the one which they had seen so long, but a variety which Swinton told them was called the brindled gnoo; it was, however, in every other respect the same animal, as to its motions and peculiarities.

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  1. adjective Tawny or grayish with streaks or spots of a darker color.

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  • His coat is brindled, dark brown and black—just like Magic's—and fine as the softest satin. —  Army Letters from an Officer's Wife, 1871-1888
  • He saw the brindled, scraggly cat huddling behind the thorns of the overgrown rosebush, watching the food with lambent eyes. —  Sherrilyn Kenyon, Rebecca York, Robin D. Owens - What Dreams May Come
  • Hendersin recently learned that Splash, with her brown-brindled coat, is Chinese Shar-Pei, Labrador retriever and Dalmatian - and no pit bull. —  WRAL.com Top Stories
  • Accordingly, he sounded his bugle, set out with his followers, and next day returned with a bow of kye, and a bassen'd (brindled) bull_. —  Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume I (of 10)
  • I do not suppose the brute will find me; and perhaps, you know, it was not a lion after all I saw: it might have been a buffalo or a brindled gnu You said positively it was a lion," I remarked; "for your own sake, as well as mine, I beg that you will not wander from the camp Still Harry, pointing to his mouth, insisted on going. —  Adventures in Africa By an African Trader
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  1. Alteration of Middle English brended, probably from brende, past participle of brennen, to burn, from Old Norse brenna; see gwher- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. A kind of diminutive form of brinded.
 

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