Ornate fabric design

Usage examples of paisley.

He looked like an escaped mental patient, a paisley bandana over one eye, face covered in fresh scratches.

His imbalanced frame was wrapped in a paisley smoking jacket with a quilted green collar.

BZ reaction always looks like a paisley pattern filled with spirals, with no circular waves in sight.

The endpapers were of a feather design, a kind of paisley pattern in shades of brown and ochre, rust and beige, with just the merest hint of blue.

Accused of crimes against humanity, Aeneas defends himself with the story of his life -- a lively if unlikely romp involving a paisley dirigible, a free-love colony in the Black Hills of South Dakota, a neo-Inca community at Machu Picchu, and exile to an outpost on Antarctica-to say nothing of the nuclear destruction of a large portion of eastern North America.

The Sandy-creature took a step forward, and the paisleys advanced with him.

Clear maternal eyes, neck concealed beneath layers of chin, gray hair done up in a bun, with wisps that had escaped the net chignon, pigeon-breasted, plump forearms with deeply dimpled elbows, wearing a silk dress of purple paisley.

They spend the next fifteen years of their lives making paisley license plates in C'atel Prison.

He wore a navy three-piece suit, bankerly with its chalk stripes and flashy with its paisley tie.

A woman walked by wearing a pale peach tent shirt in a faux paisley pattern, brown gauze pants, and ribbon barrettes pulling her hair from her face.

A blue-haired woman, sporting more chins than I had owned in my heyday, went squealing past us up the stairs, the skirt of her paisley silk dress clutched in both hands.

Now, places like the Rainbow hop around the clock, even on a Tuesday afternoon -- whenever fresh dittos can arrive, baked for harsh pleasure in their owners' kilns, decorated in everything from paisley spirals to moiré patters that turn skin into blurry art.

Beneath yellow silk tents, on paisley pillows, Mughal princes acrobatically copulated with multiple partners, keeping their turbans in place.

The anarchist lieutenant -- the dainty man with the paisley kerchiefs -- posed one bent leg atop the wall, with his elbow on his knee and his chin in his hand.

The anarchist lieutenant—the dainty man with the paisley kerchiefs—posed one bent leg atop the wall, with his elbow on his knee and his chin in his hand.