a. [A variant of the earlier BRINDED, prob. by assimilation to such words as kindled, mingled, perh. with some feeling of a diminutive sense.] ‘Streaked, tabby, marked with streaks’ (J.).
1678. Lond. Gaz., No. 1328/4. Lost or stolen … a large light brindled gelt Mastiff Dog.
1718. Pope, Iliad, XI. 378. The brindled lion, or the tusky boar.
1753. Smollett, Ct. Fathom (1784), 116/2. His beard … was of a brindled hue.
1817. J. Scott, Paris Revisit. (ed. 4), 100. The mustachoes which hid the expression of the human mouth under a brindled tuft of hair.
1870. Edgar, Runnymede, 186. A brindled bull.
1886. Engineer, 1 Oct., 265. The brindled brick trade … is an important Staffordshire industry.
