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herringbone
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also herring-bone , 1650s in literal sense and also as a type of stitch, from herring + bone (n.). From 1905 as a type of cirrocumulus cloud.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Herringbone (1940–September 1961) was a British Thoroughbred racehorse and broodmare , best known for winning two Classics in 1943. The filly won four times from ten races in a track career which lasted from spring 1942 until September 1943. As a two-year-old ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Complete herringbone stitching at the lower part of side seams, above the mitres. ▪ It produces a slight herringbone effect on the face of the rug and a series of ridges along the back. ▪ Then a fountain-pen needle stitched up ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Herringbone \Her"ring*bone`\ (h[e^]r"r[i^]ng*b[=o]n`), a. Pertaining to, or like, the spine of a herring; especially, characterized by an arrangement of work in rows of parallel lines, which in the alternate rows slope in different directions. Herringbone ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
alt. 1 A bone of a herring 2 A zigzag pattern, especially made by bricks, on a cloth, or by stitches in sewing 3 (context skiing English) A method of climbing a hill by pointing the skis outward in a V-shape to keep from sliding backwards. 4 Twilled fabric ...
Usage examples of herringbone.
Stolley and Fyle as Temar made an efficient herringbone pattern of bandaging up my wrist.
He was a substantial-looking businessman in a gray herringbone robe and headcloth to match.
Today, he had on a coarse, brown, herringbone sport coat way too heavy for a California spring, a once-white wash-and-wear shirt and a green polyblend tie embroidered with blue dragons.
He was wearing an old pair of herringbone tweeds and brandished a pair of secateurs like a cavalry sabre.
The walls, pale salmon, were adorned with vivid paintings of stained-glass cathedral windows, and the fabric covering sofa and armchairs was of a large broken herringbone pattern in dark brown and white, confusing to the eye.
Clothing racks of hair shirts, habergeons, hauberks and herringbone suits.
Then it was refurbished and rebuilt, with thick stone walls that met at the corners of rooms in graceful arches called lunettes, with floors of brick laid out in herringbone patterns, with intricate wooden ceilings and wide windows that were shuttered, barred, and set so low they seemed to kneel into the street.
I sat up front with Luke, and our portly boss sat alone in back, neatly dressed in black slacks, a maroon summer-weight shirt, and a herringbone jacket, looking less like a carny than like a well-fed country squire.
By the time it was reproducing intensely colorful herringbones and checkerboards, the crew had abandoned its initial fear in favor of spontaneous bursts of applause.
I had a wash in cold water and changed into the clothes I had chosen to wear for tea, a brown herringbone wool and mohair suit from Simpsons of Piccadilly, Turnbull and Asser Tattershall shirt, knitted green wool tie and Grendon brogues that I had polished the night before.
Today he was dressed, as in the old days, in a favorite combination of a high-necked shirt with fine green-and-white check and an ultraconservative business suit with a herringbone pattern of mixed brown and gray.
Babs and Saint had DIM lice in their hair, colorful little bugs that moved around on their scalps like tiny cars in traffic, arranging their hair in filigrees that could variously resemble shingles, paisley, crop circles, or herringbone tweed.
High ceilings, carved crown moldings, mellow wood paneling, herringboned inlay floors with more jewel-toned Persian rugs.
Sally showered, dressed in jeans, turtleneck sweater, slipping on her oversized wool herringbone jacket and Reeboks, had a quick bite at the restaurant and then walked around the motel, getting some exercise.
As additional tunnelers were brought on line, this resulted in an array of tunnels that a human would have called a herringbone pattern, or perhaps something that looked like the shaft and veins of a feather.