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brindle

[brin-dl] / ˈbrɪn dl /




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Stewart followed by sharing a "moment of zen" — a video clip of Dipper, a brindle pitbull mix, romping around in the snow.

From Salon ● Mar. 1, 2024

The dog was described as a reverse brindle: blue and gray in color with a white chest.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 31, 2022

On the page, the bulldog — a gray brindle with a white chest and green eyes — is pictured with a small child and a wrapped Christmas present.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 14, 2022

Jean took a liking to the brindle pit bull, which was too young to be left in a shelter cage until the storm passed, and knew he needed to find the animal a home.

From Fox News ● Sep. 4, 2019

He was brindle colored and built like a truck, and his ears were rounded when we got him so that they looked like bear cub ears.

From "Woodsong" by Gary Paulsen

There were reds, and piebalds, and duns, and browns, and brindles, short horns, long horns, crumpled horns and no horns.

From Around The Tea-Table by T. De Witt (Thomas De Witt) Talmage

"The brindles," the horses of all colors and of no color at all to speak of, are the only ones left, and the lowest company commander must take them because he has no choice.

From George at the Fort Life Among the Soldiers by Harry Castlemon

Steel and gray brindles are in so little demand and are so easy to produce that we shall not notice them.

From The Boston Terrier and All About It A Practical, Scientific, and Up to Date Guide to the Breeding of the American Dog by Edward Axtell

The colours in order of merit are, first, whole colours and smuts, viz., brindles, reds, white, with their varieties, as whole fawns, fallows, etc., and, secondly, pied and mixed colours.

From Dogs and All about Them by Robert Leighton

After these divisions are made there are always some "off" horses, such as roans and browns, which are put into a lot by themselves and called the "brindles."

From George at the Fort Life Among the Soldiers by Harry Castlemon


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