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  • noun Plural form of striping.

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Examples

  • I assume we're probably going to have the same thing last time with all kinds of downed signal lights, a lot of roof damage, trailer - quite a bit of damage to the trailers, but the aluminum carports and stripings around the trailers are all blown out into the street.

    CNN Transcript Sep 25, 2004 2004

  • Beyond it a long slope, slow degrees of a washed gravel surface with stripings of an occasional torrent-bed, went down westward.

    Seven Pillars of Wisdom Thomas Edward 2003

  • The twirling embrace conveyed snow from the sky to the ground in loose, relaxed stripings of white.

    Into the Thinking Kingdoms Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1999

  • The twirling embrace conveyed snow from the sky to the ground in loose, relaxed stripings of white.

    Into the Thinking Kingdoms Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1999

  • Both knew exactly what to look for: the brassy, regularly cut crystals with the black stripings, such as has led countless men to go through untold hardships in the belief that they had found gold.

    The Devolutionist and the Emancipatrix Homer Eon Flint 1908

  • Both knew exactly what to look for: the brassy, regularly cut crystals with the black stripings, such as has led countless men to go through untold hardships in the belief that they had found gold.

    The Emancipatrix Homer Eon Flint 1908

  • If we want stripings or pretty flowers or highly ornamented legs for the tub, we will be permitted to pay for them, but they are scarcely requisites in the bathroom economy.

    The Complete Home Oliver R. [Contributor] Williamson 1907

  • There were boxes in the bateau, covered by a tarpaulin whose stripings of red signaled danger.

    Joan of Arc of the North Woods Holman Day 1900

  • Muscle-fibres from the heart, much magnified, showing cross-stripings, nuclei, or the darkly stained central bodies very important to the life of the cell, also the divisions and points of union.

    Voice Production in Singing and Speaking Based on Scientific Principles (Fourth Edition, Revised and Enlarged) Wesley Mills 1881

  • For _Unktéhee_ likes bands of blood-red, with the stripings of blue intermingled.

    The Feast of the Virgins and Other Poems Hanford Lennox Gordon 1878

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