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adjective having a grey or brown streak or a pattern or a patchy coloring; used especially of the patterned fur of cats
originFrom Middle English brended (“burnt, branded”), from bren (“burned, branded”), from the past participle of brennen (“to burn”), from Old English bærnan (“to burn”). Also compare Old Norse brǫndóttr, Icelandic bröndóttr (“brindled”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0