brinded s having a grey or brown streak or a pattern or a patchy coloring; used especially of the patterned fur of cats Usage(s) GLORY be to God for dappled thingsFor skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow; For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim; Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls; finches' wings . Synonym(s) brindled brindle tabby