[App. deduced from brindled, as if this consisted of brindle + -ed.]
A. adj. = BRINDED, BRINDLED.
1676. Lond. Gaz., No. 1145/4. A … white Mastiff Dog with half his face brindle, and large brindle spots on his sides.
1765. Tucker, Lt. Nat., I. 497. Two fine cows, one brindle and the other white.
1807–8. W. Irving, Salmag., xviii. (1860), 403. The old lady … lost … a brindle cow.
1862. Sat. Rev., 5 July, 19. The longhorned [English cattle] … of which brindle or brindle and white are common colours.
1886. Engineer, 1 Oct., 265. The quotation of brindle bricks at date is about 18s. per 1000.
B. sb. a. Brindled color. b. A brindled dog.
1696. Lond. Gaz., No. 3242/4. An old Dutch Mastiff … of a lightish Brindle. Ibid. (1710), No. 4747/4. Lost … a Lurcher Bitch, a Brindle with a black Mussel.
1748. Richardson, Clarissa (1811), VIII. xli. 156. The artificial jet, however, yielding apace to the natural brindle.
1824. Miss Mitford, Village, Ser. I. (1863), 65. Of the three dogs, the first a brindle, the second a yellow.
