brindle
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Today, the only people in the lobby are a group of women with a brindle dachshund who are comparing enneagrams.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 15, 2026
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
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
Four years ago, the San Francisco 49ers bought Zoe, a black brindle Frenchie that serves as the team’s emotional support dog.
From New York Times ● Jun. 23, 2022
He looked much like a brindle wolf, with beautifully slanted eyes.
From "Woodsong" by Gary Paulsen
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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
Breed first to mahogany brindles, and bitches from this union to seal brindles.
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
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
A drove of oxen came down the road, two brindles leading the way.
From Black Forest Village Stories by Berthold Auerbach
I think the subject of sufficient importance to again call the attention of breeders to the necessity of the extreme care in breeding seal brindles.
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