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English
English : nickname for someone with gray hair or a gray beard, from Old English græg ‘gray’. In Scotland and Ireland it has been used as a translation of various Gaelic surnames derived from riabhach ‘brindled’, ‘gray’ (see Reavey). In North America this name has assimilated names with similar meaning from other European languages.English and Scottish (of Norman origin) : habitational name from Graye in Calvados, France, named from the Gallo-Roman personal name Gratus, meaning ‘welcome’, ‘pleasing’ + the locative suffix -acum.French and Swiss French : habitational name from Gray in Haute-Saône and Le Gray in Seine-Maritime, both in France, or from Gray-la-ville in Switzerland, or a regional name from the Swiss canton of Graubünden.A leading English family called Grey, holders of the earldom of Stamford, can be traced to Henry de Grey, who was granted lands at Thurrock, Essex, by Richard I (1189–99). They once held great power, and Henry Grey, Duke of Suffolk (1517–54), married a granddaughter of Henry VII. Because of this he felt entitled to claim the throne for his daughter, Lady Jane Grey (1537–54), after the death of Henry VIII. For this, and for his part in Wyatt’s rebellion, both he and his daughter were beheaded.
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English (chiefly Cheshire, Staffordshire, and southern Lancashire)
English (chiefly Cheshire, Staffordshire, and southern Lancashire) : habitational name from a place in Cheshire named Brindley, from Old English berned ‘burnt’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’.
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Scottish
Scottish : nickname for someone with streaks of gray or white hair, from Gaelic riabhach ‘brindled’, ‘grayish’.English : habitational name from either of two places called Reach, in Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire, from Old English rǣc ‘raised strip of land or other linear feature’ (in the case of the Cambridgeshire name referring to Devil’s Dyke, a post-Roman earthwork).
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English
English : probably a variant of Brindley.
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English
Burnt wood.
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English (Lancashire)
English (Lancashire) : habitational name from a place in Lancashire named Brindle, from Old English burna ‘stream’ + hyll ‘hill’.Altered spelling of South German Brindl, Bründl, a topographic name for someone who lived by a spring or stream, from a diminutive of Middle High German brun(ne) ‘spring’, ‘stream’, or of Brendle or Brendel.
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Indian, Sanskrit
Owner of Brindled Cows
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Australian, British, English
Burnt Meadow
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Brindled; diversified in color; as, a tabby cat.
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Having dark streaks or spots on a gray or tawny ground; brinded.
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The brindled gnu. See Gnu.
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A brindled color; also, that which is brindled.
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Brindled.
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Of a gray or tawny color with streaks of darker hue; streaked; brindled.
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A brindled cat; hence, popularly, any cat.
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The state of being brindled.