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brin⋅dled

  [brin-dld]
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–adjective
gray or tawny with darker streaks or spots.
Origin:
1670–80; alter. of brinded, with -le perh. from grizzled, speckled, etc.
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brin·dled   (brĭn'dld)   
adj.  Tawny or grayish with streaks or spots of a darker color.

[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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brindled 
"marked with streaks," 1678, from M.E. brended (1430), from bren "brown color" (13c.), noun made from pp. of brennen "burn," perhaps meaning "marked as though by branding or burning."
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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