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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



... ho!" he said. "Why, you fool, M. Gringuet's deputy arrived two hours before you. You must get up a little earlier another time. They are poor tricksters who are too late for the fair. And now be silent, and it may save you a stripe or two to-morrow." ...
— From the Memoirs of a Minister of France • Stanley Weyman
... the son of a poor country pastor in Saxony, he lived from 1817 to 1887, when he died, seventy years therefore, at Leipzig, a typical gelehrter of the old-fashioned german stripe. His means were always scanty, so his only extravagances could be in the way of thought, but these were gorgeous ones. He passed his medical examinations at Leipzig University at the age of twenty-one, but decided, instead of becoming a doctor, to devote himself to ...
— A Pluralistic Universe - Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the - Present Situation in Philosophy • William James
... of this apple-tree Winds and our flag of stripe and star Shall bear to coasts that lie afar, Where men shall wonder at the view, And ask in what fair groves they grew; And sojourners beyond the sea Shall think of childhood's careless day, And long, long hours of summer play, In the shade ...
— Children's Literature - A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes • Charles Madison Curry
... generally with a fine, threadlike stripe, and ties to match always," Honey said softly. "And the simplest jewelry," she ...
— Skinner's Dress Suit • Henry Irving Dodge
... with a salute, by a detachment of warriors drawn up in full dress — viz. red and yellow turbans, and blue trousers with a red stripe. ...
— Diary of a Pedestrian in Cashmere and Thibet • by William Henry Knight


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