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pinstriped
[ pin-strahypt ]
adjective
- (of a fabric or garment) having a pattern of pin stripes.
- 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.
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of pinstriped1
Example Sentences
And they saved the clothes from their 2008 San Francisco wedding — Galilee’s pale pink dress and Rogers’ pinstriped tuxedo.
“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.
Everything was yellow or pink—the checkered floor, the pinstriped walls, the booths and counter stools.
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.
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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