Pied vs Brindled - What's the difference?
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(pi)
(pie)
Decorated or colored in blotches.
* Burton
* Milton
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)
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)Adjective
(en adjective)- pied coats
- meadows trim with daisies pied
Derived terms
* pied antelope * pied-billed grebe * pied finch * pied flycatcher * Pied PiperAnagrams
* ----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.
