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"etymology_text": "An alteration of brinded, probably by association with speckled, grizzled etc.",
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"ref": "1853, Melville, Cock-A-Doodle-Doo!",
"text": "All round me were tokens of a divided empire. The old grass and the new grass were striving together. In the low wet swales the verdure peeped out in vivid green ; beyond, on the mountains, lay light patches of snow, strangely relieved against their russet sides; all the humped hills looked like brindled kine in the shivers.",
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"ref": "1904, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of Black Peter, Norton, published 2005, page 982",
"text": "And there, in the middle of it was the man himself—his face twisted like a lost soul in torment, and his great brindled beard stuck upwards in his agony.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1934, George Orwell, chapter 4, in Burmese Days",
"text": "Some brindled curs hurried from beneath the houses to sniff at Flo […]",
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}
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"of a brownish, tawny or gray colour, with streaks or spots; streaky, spotted"
],
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],
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],
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"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "streaky, spotted",
"word": "strakatý"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "streaky, spotted",
"word": "mourovatý"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "streaky, spotted",
"word": "ruskeankirjava"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "streaky, spotted",
"word": "harmaankirjava"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "streaky, spotted",
"word": "pettyes"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "streaky, spotted",
"word": "csíkos"
},
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"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "streaky, spotted",
"word": "foltos"
},
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"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "streaky, spotted",
"word": "tarka"
},
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"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "streaky, spotted",
"word": "riabhach"
},
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"code": "ota",
"lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
"roman": "tekir",
"sense": "streaky, spotted",
"word": "تكیر"
},
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"code": "ru",
"english": "spotted",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "pjatnístyj",
"sense": "streaky, spotted",
"word": "пятни́стый"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"english": "striped",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "polosátyj",
"sense": "streaky, spotted",
"word": "полоса́тый"
},
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"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "pjóstryj",
"sense": "streaky, spotted",
"word": "пёстрый"
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"code": "gd",
"lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
"sense": "streaky, spotted",
"word": "riabhach"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "streaky, spotted",
"word": "aleonado"
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}
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"ref": "1862, Thoreau, Wild Apples: The History of the Apple Tree",
"text": "Apples, these I mean, unspeakably fair [...] - some brindled with deep red streaks like a cow, or with hundreds of fine blood-red rays running regularly from the stem-dimple to the blossom-end, like meridional lines, on a straw-colored ground, [...]",
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"type": "quotation"
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{
"ref": "1904, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of Black Peter, Norton, published 2005, page 982",
"text": "And there, in the middle of it was the man himself—his face twisted like a lost soul in torment, and his great brindled beard stuck upwards in his agony.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1934, George Orwell, chapter 4, in Burmese Days",
"text": "Some brindled curs hurried from beneath the houses to sniff at Flo […]",
"type": "quotation"
}
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"of a brownish, tawny or gray colour, with streaks or spots; streaky, spotted"
],
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"brownish",
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],
[
"tawny",
"tawny"
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"streaky",
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"spotted",
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]
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"ipa": "/ˈbɹɪndəld/"
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"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "streaky, spotted",
"word": "strakatý"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "streaky, spotted",
"word": "mourovatý"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "streaky, spotted",
"word": "ruskeankirjava"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "streaky, spotted",
"word": "harmaankirjava"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "streaky, spotted",
"word": "pettyes"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "streaky, spotted",
"word": "csíkos"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "streaky, spotted",
"word": "foltos"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "streaky, spotted",
"word": "tarka"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "streaky, spotted",
"word": "riabhach"
},
{
"code": "ota",
"lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
"roman": "tekir",
"sense": "streaky, spotted",
"word": "تكیر"
},
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"code": "ru",
"english": "spotted",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "pjatnístyj",
"sense": "streaky, spotted",
"word": "пятни́стый"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"english": "striped",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "polosátyj",
"sense": "streaky, spotted",
"word": "полоса́тый"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "pjóstryj",
"sense": "streaky, spotted",
"word": "пёстрый"
},
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"code": "gd",
"lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
"sense": "streaky, spotted",
"word": "riabhach"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "streaky, spotted",
"word": "aleonado"
}
],
"word": "brindled"
}
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"text": "Apples, these I mean, unspeakably fair [...] - some brindled with deep red streaks like a cow, or with hundreds of fine blood-red rays running regularly from the stem-dimple to the blossom-end, like meridional lines, on a straw-colored ground, [...]",
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