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Stripe   /straɪp/   Listen
Stripe

noun
1.
An adornment consisting of a strip of a contrasting color or material.  Synonyms: band, banding.
2.
A piece of braid, usually on the sleeve, indicating military rank or length of service.
3.
V-shaped sleeve badge indicating military rank and service.  Synonyms: chevron, grade insignia, stripes.
4.
A kind or category.
5.
A narrow marking of a different color or texture from the background.  Synonyms: bar, streak.  "May the Stars and Stripes forever wave"
verb
(past & past part. striped; pres. part. striping)
1.
Mark with stripes.



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"Stripe" Quotes from Famous Books



... pale pistache green, with mulberry lines, the same combination of colours being repeated in painting the walls which have a grey background lined with mulberry—the broad stripe—and a narrow green line. The bed cover is mulberry, the lamp shade is green with mulberry and ...
— The Art of Interior Decoration • Grace Wood
... age, and had adopted a dishrag-white color; and one of the original legs had been patched out of existence. His Stetson hat, which had left the factory a deep brown, now approached the color of his terrestrial real estate. His "jumper" had lost its blue and white "jail bird" stripe effect, and was now a cross between a faded Brussels carpet and a grain sack. To save buying boots he wore his last winter's overshoes away into the summer, while his feet would blister in discomfort. Braces were ...
— Skookum Chuck Fables - Bits of History, Through the Microscope • Skookum Chuck (pseud for R.D. Cumming)
... practice. If you have been fool enough to get into the crowd that invokes the aid of dirty politics to help it hang people on street-car straps, just write them out a check for whatever money you have left, and tell your trustee you are broke again; because you are not and never can be of their stripe, and if you are not of their stripe they will pick your bones. Turn a canary loose in a colony of street sparrows and watch what ...
— The Making of Bobby Burnit - Being a Record of the Adventures of a Live American Young Man • George Randolph Chester
... upper parts grayish tawny; ocular stripe pale; skull, rostrum, nasals, and upper incisors shorter than ...
— The Baculum in the Chipmunks of Western North America • John A. White
... great many yards of stuff, he formed a turban of enormous dimensions of green and yellow stripe, which he placed upon the head ...
— Jack Harkaway's Boy Tinker Among The Turks - Book Number Fifteen in the Jack Harkaway Series • Bracebridge Hemyng


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