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  • adjective having a pattern consisting of black bars

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Examples

  • I dunno, maybe they could have black-barred the stick figures 'genital regions, too? fanboy d add some stick figure animation in the tv spots or throw the new poster art at the end of theatrical trailers and voila - you've marketed a movie gocitizen

    Zack and Miri Make a Porno MPAA Approved Movie Poster | /Film 2008

  • For one stark instant, Taen saw the black-barred wingtips of the stormfalcon beat in the darkness above his head.

    Stormwarden Wurts, Janny 1989

  • Breezes whispered through his hair and a single black-barred feather drifted down.

    Stormwarden Wurts, Janny 1989

  • All was accordingly got ready: the towel, the most antique ewer, even the jennet, piebald, black-barred, cream-coated, pink-eyed -- and only then, on the day before the party, was the Duke's pleasure signified to his lady.

    Browning's Heroines Ethel Colburn Mayne

  • The Sandeman's familiar tattoo of a black-barred violet flower was missing from his cheek, but Medart knew him well enough to recognize him easily without it.

    Zeta Exchange A Terran Empire story Ann Wilson

  • Tigers they looked like, superb tigers of the insect world, with their tawny black-barred bodies.

    The Adventures of Maya the Bee Waldemar Bonsels 1919

  • The house to which we had been directed was on the hill, and from its windows one could look down on the barracks-like pile of stone with the evil little black-barred slits of windows, below and perhaps a quarter of a mile away.

    The Dream Doctor 1908

  • They went indoors again, and upstairs to their parents 'front bedroom, whose windows looked down on the road, and across the country at the black-barred sunset, black and red barred, without light.

    Women in Love 1907

  • Here and there a moor-hen or two swam quietly about flicking its black-barred white tail.

    Dick o' the Fens A Tale of the Great East Swamp George Manville Fenn 1870

  • "I wonder whether there's a bridge," thought Hilary, as he looked at the smooth dark water, dotted with the broad leaves of the yellow water-lily, and amidst the herbage of whose banks a sooty-looking water-hen was walking delicately upon its long thin green toes, darting its crimson-shielded head forward and flicking its white black-barred tail at every step.

    In the King's Name The Cruise of the "Kestrel" George Manville Fenn 1870

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