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brindled (oh) and watchet (iou)


brindled (oh)



[Date: 1600-1700; Origin: brinded 'brindled' (15-19 centuries), perhaps from a Scandinavian language]
a brindled animal is brown and has marks or bands of another colour
-- brindle n [U and C]

watchet (iou)



watchet noun & adjective. Now arch. & dial. LME.
[App. from Old Northern French watchet, earlier waschet, Anglo-Latin waschetum, of unkn. origin.]
A. noun.
A light blue colour (also watchet-blue); cloth or garments of this colour. LME.
Angling. (An artificial fly imitating) a small bluish mayfly. Also watchet fly. L18.
b. adjective. Light blue, sky-blue. L15.
? Formerly occas. used of greenish colours.