BRINDLE

PRONUNCIATION: (BRIN-duhl)

MEANING: noun: 1. Gray or tawny with streaks or spots of a darker color.
2. An animal, especially a dog, cat, or cow, with a brindle coat.
adj.: Of the color brindle.

ETYMOLOGY: Back-formation from brindled, an alteration of brinded (streaked or spotted), from Old Norse. Earliest documented use: 1676.
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B. RIDDLE - He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named's younger sister Barbara

BRIDLE - a girl getting married at the age of four

BRINDALE - a broad valley that's been inundated by salt water