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pinstriped

or pin-striped

[ pin-strahypt ]

adjective

  1. (of a fabric or garment) having a pattern of pin stripes.
  2. Informal. having or conveying the attitudes, policies, etc., often associated with persons who typically wear such garments in their work, as bankers or lawyers:

    a pinstriped mind.



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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of pinstriped1

First recorded in 1895–1900; pinstripe + -ed 3
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Example Sentences

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And they saved the clothes from their 2008 San Francisco wedding — Galilee’s pale pink dress and Rogers’ pinstriped tuxedo.

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“If the blues were born in New Orleans and the South — they took a note and blew it through a horn,†said Rodriguez, standing onstage wearing a pinstriped suit and his signature fedora.

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Everything was yellow or pink—the checkered floor, the pinstriped walls, the booths and counter stools.

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It often wore pinstriped suits; Jews regularly saw the backs of them if they had the nerve to try to get admitted to certain clubs, fraternities, neighborhoods, and inner, upper business circles.

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His first “crawl,†as he called them, took place in Times Square in 1978, when he moved on his belly across 42nd Street in a pinstriped suit with a yellow square sewed to the back.

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