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Pied vs Brindled - What's the difference?

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As adjectives the difference between pied and brindled

is that pied is decorated or colored in blotches while brindled is of a brownish, tawny or gray colour, with streaks or spots; streaky, spotted.

As a verb pied

is past tense of pi.

pied

English

Verb

(head)
  • (pi)
  • (pie)
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Decorated or colored in blotches.
  • * Burton
  • pied coats
  • * Milton
  • meadows trim with daisies pied

    Derived terms

    * pied antelope * pied-billed grebe * pied finch * pied flycatcher * Pied Piper

    Anagrams

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    brindled

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • of a brownish, tawny or gray colour, with streaks or spots; streaky, spotted
  • * 1725 , Pope, Odyssey (translation),
  • 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.
  • * 1853 , Melville,
  • 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.
  • * 1862 , Thoreau,
  • 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, [...]
  • * 1904 , Arthur Conan Doyle, ‘The Adventure of Black Peter’ (Norton 2005, p.982)
  • 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.