striped

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  1. adjective Having lines or bands of different color or texture.

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  • Her funnels were striped, her brass shone, and from her flagstaff trailed gaudily the colors of an Asiatic nation. —  055 - The Feathered Octopus
  • Today she had outdone herself: candy-striped, paint-stained pants with the widest bell-bottoms I'd seen since 1970; a baggy purple sweater covered with those balls of fuzz I call sweater mice; a yellow polka-dot bandanna holding back her hair. —  muller 10 fixed
  • Someone pin-striped, sleek, and with that ominous look of the official. —  A Presumption of Death - Jill Paton Walsh, Dorothy L Sayers, - [Wimsey-Vane]
  • He was decked out, of all things, in a morning outfit--striped trousers, dark swag coat and fawn lap-over vest. —  175 - The Pure Evil
  • Victor's "Tommy" polo shirt was green-and-white striped, and Barney's Ralph Lauren was golden brown. —  grave Surprise
 

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/ˈstraɪpɛd/
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