Brindle
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- This article concerns animal colour. For the village in England, see Brindle, Lancashire.
Brindle is a coat coloring in animals, particularly dogs, cats, and horses. It is sometimes described as "tiger striped", although the brindle pattern is more subtle than that of a tiger's coat. The streaks of color are usually darker than the base coat, which is often tawny or grayish, although very dark markings can occur on a coat that's barely lighter.
Light brindle Great Dane |
Darker brindle and white Boston Terrier |
Very dark or seal brindle French Bulldog |
Tiger and reverse brindle French Bulldogs |
Fancy Brindle Boxer (dog) |
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The word brindle comes from brindled, originally brinded, from an old Scandinavian word. See Wiktionary. The concept occurs in the opening of 'Pied Beauty' (1877) by Gerard Manley Hopkins, a poem about dappled, streaky, subtly-varied Nature where he compares 'skies of couple-colour' to a 'brinded cow'.
