Flecked vs Brindled - What's the difference?
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(fleck)
A flake
A lock, as of wool.
A small spot or streak; a speckle.
* Longfellow
* Tennyson
To mark with small spots
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*:So this was my future home, I thought!Backed by towering hills, the but faintly discernible purple line of the French boundary off to the southwest, a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.
of a brownish, tawny or gray colour, with streaks or spots; streaky, spotted
* 1725 , Pope, Odyssey (translation),
* 1853 , Melville,
* 1862 , Thoreau,
* 1904 , Arthur Conan Doyle, ‘The Adventure of Black Peter’ (Norton 2005, p.982)
Flecked is a related term of brindled.
As a verb flecked
is (fleck).As an adjective brindled is
of a brownish, tawny or gray colour, with streaks or spots; streaky, spotted.flecked
English
Verb
(head)fleck
English
Noun
(en noun)- A sunny fleck .
- Life is dashed with flecks of sin.
Verb
(en verb)brindled
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The palace in a woody vale they found,
- High raised of stone; a shaded space around;
- Where mountain wolves and brindled lions roam,
- (By magic tamed,) familiar to the dome.
- 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.
- 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, [...]
- 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.