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n. (barber pole English)
Usage examples of "barber poles".
Two of the hotels had below-street-level barbershops, and at the curb before each stood ten-foot-high wooden barber poles striped red-and-white and surmounted by great gilt balls.
Things like sidewalks, fences, gates, cars, plateglass windows, barber poles.
I moved off along the walk, mingled with men in capes and three-cornered hats, women in all-over ruffles and stand-up lace collars and some stripped to the waist and painted like barber poles, and a few of both sexes wrapped in old bed-sheets.
The trees had thin spiraling trunks that were striped with red and white, like barber poles.
The El pillars kept coming between them like a sort of sparse picket fence, and then there were occasional barber poles and empty glass sidewalk display cases to screen him.