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  • I know stripes are not florals or prints, but I just want to give an honorable mention to Gap, which can always be relied upon to come up with a sensible, stylish option; their striped, halter-necked grey-and-white cheesecloth maxi £55.95 could persuade even the most cynical amongst us to give ankle-grazing a go.

    Spring's Prints Charming? Tina Gaudoin 2011

  • In the living room there are faux grey-and-white zebra print chairs, an orange Afghan rug, a machine gun lamp post and gold Moroccan cube tables.

    Downtown Los Angeles Living 2011

  • Peeping through a crack in plywood in a room that was once a larder, you see a purplish, high-buttoned blouse with a gauzy skirt; it's perched on top of a grey-and-white photograph of naked legs and big balls.

    The Real Thing; The Concise Dictionary of Dress 2010

  • The woman, who had a grey-and-white kerchief tied round her head, turned sharply, to keep pace with the cart, whose driver also had settled back, and was lifting the reins, moving his loose, light shoulders.

    The Virgin and the Gypsy 2003

  • Emma got off the arm of the chair and Andrew got off Walter's lap, and both children stood contemplating his right leg in its grey flannel trouser leg and grey-and-white Argyll pattern sock.

    Piranha to Scurfy & Other Stories Rendell, Ruth 2000

  • Its grey-and-white face watched them mistrustfully from the safety of a ceiling light fixture.

    A World Out of Time Niven, Larry 1976

  • He also wore a bowler hat, and had wrapped himself up in an immense grey-and-white striped scarf.

    Mystery Mile Allingham, Margery, 1904-1966 1930

  • He also wore a bowler hat, and had wrapped himself up in an immense grey-and-white striped scarf.

    Mystery Mile Allingham, Margery, 1904-1966 1930

  • The thing got up with the promptitude of an animal, and turning round offered the spectacle of two owlish eyes and a huge grey-and-white beard not unlike the plumage of an owl.

    The Ball and the Cross 1905

  • On the long stillness of assent that followed there came a voice across the room, from within a grey-and-white bonnet, which shadowed a delicate face shining with the flame of the spirit within.

    The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker Gilbert Parker 1897

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