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Barber's pole   /bˈɑrbərz poʊl/   Listen
Barber's pole

noun
1.
Striped pole outside a barbershop.






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"Barber's pole" Quotes from Famous Books



... hugged you and kissed you, and actually cried (or got mad again), if you refused to accept as a sign of your forgiveness her new slate-pencil, decorated with strips of red- and-white paper just like a little barber's pole! No wonder Nannie, timid and good-natured, was helpless before such a sweet, furious little creature! Blair had more backbone than his sister, but even he felt Elizabeth's heel upon his neck. David Richie, a silent, candid, very stubborn small boy, was, after ...
— The Iron Woman • Margaret Deland

... was returning homeward through the district that lies at the rear of Middlesex Street, my attention was arrested by a large card tacked on the door of a closed shop. A dingy barber's pole gave a clue to the nature of the industry formerly carried on, and the card—which was written upon in fair and even scholarly Hebrew characters—supplied particulars. I had stopped to read the inscription, faintly amused at the ...
— The Uttermost Farthing - A Savant's Vendetta • R. Austin Freeman

... by a highly intelligent young Pole," says a writer in The Express. The Barber's Pole is of course a very ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, February 18, 1914 • Various

... received a few simple lessons in conjuring, in a dimly lighted chamber beneath a shop, from a gifted young man with a long neck and a pimply face, who as I entered took a barber's pole from my pocket, saying at the same time, "Come, come, sir, this will never do." Whether because he knew too much, or because he wore a trick shirt, he was the most depressing person I ever encountered; he felt none of the artist's joy, and it was sad to see one so well calculated to give pleasure ...
— The Little White Bird - or Adventures In Kensington Gardens • J. M. Barrie

... room who is mounted onto a foaming steed, his right hand graspin a barber's pole. I didn't learn ...
— Humorous Masterpieces from American Literature • Various



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