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  • adjective of fabric Having pinstripes
  • adjective of a suit Made from such fabric

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  • adjective having very thin stripes

Etymologies

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Examples

  • I think most people see the goons as just the usual hired thugs movie villains always have on hand as cannon fodder, and it doesn't matter what they're wearing, they're the same sort of generic bad guys as mugs in pinstriped suits and gunslingers in black hats and Bond villains in jumpsuits and Stormtroopers and Nazis.

    Raiders of the Lost Ark 2008

  • Never," he said, dressed in a pinstriped blue suit with a pin of Libya's pre-Gadhafi flag on his lapel."

    Libyan rebels seek democracy, official says 2011

  • The costume includes an eye catching dress shirt, vest, tie and pinstriped pants.

    SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles - Part 1058 2009

  • My sister predicted that this niece would become the head of a big record company and would wear a pinstriped three-piece suit to work every day.

    Red Flags or Red Herrings? Susan Engel 2011

  • An elderly man in a pinstriped suit who looked like he was trying to buy the Daily News was swept up in the net — the police released him immediately.

    Think Progress » For eighth day, climate activists block bulldozers at WV’s Coal River Mountain. 2010

  • ÂLikely inspired by his own retrospective currently up at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts and traveling to Dallas and San Francisco, Gaultier's DNA was in full force as his pinstriped sharp masculine-feminine styling (men in skirts), variations of trench coats, and intrasia sweaters (done in feathers) paraded down the catwalk.

    Cameron Silver: Boys Just Wanna Have Fun Cameron Silver 2011

  • A scissored article slipped from her hands and floated to the floor — and there he was, grinning at me in monochrome, as striking as ever in the only memento his daddy had left behind after driving off with the other Other Woman: A grey-on-black pinstriped suit, swinging from a coat hanger in the hallway closet.

    "Goddamned" Gage 2011

  • Ryan Collerd for The Wall Street Journal Robert S. Cohen, teaching Anatomy of a Divorce, his class at Penn Law At 4: 30, with the jacket of his pinstriped suit off and a microphone clipped to his tie, Mr. Cohen welcomed the 33 students to his class, Anatomy of a Divorce.

    The Ultimate Power Hobby Katherine Rosman 2010

  • Likely inspired by his own retrospective currently up at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts and traveling to Dallas and San Francisco, Gaultier's DNA was in full force as his pinstriped sharp masculine-feminine styling (men in skirts), variations of trench coats, and intrasia sweaters (done in feathers) paraded down the catwalk.

    Cameron Silver: Boys Just Wanna Have Fun Cameron Silver 2011

  • He wore bespoke wool suits, occasionally pinstriped, cut by skilled tailors into flowing Middle Eastern designs.

    Day of Honey Annia Ciezadlo 2011

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