What is "herring-bone"

Usage examples of "herring-bone".

Theirs was a black-and-yellow herring-bone design, which Lars had thoughtfully painted on the console.

She had to admit that the black and yellow herring-bones had high visibility.

Killa squinted down at rocks bearing the barest hint of colour but the herring-bone pattern was distinguishable.

She found herself tracking a brilliant display of green, blue and yellow herring-bones that flashed from the core to the floor and disappeared.

He wore a three-piece drape suit in silk herring-bone, a striped shirt, and a bow tie.

Smaller strips, running into the channel herring-bone fashion, were marked with the swastika.

I lifted the left trainer onto the right, and rubbed without enthusiasm at the black herring-bone pattern the oily wheel had left.

Far away below on my left a ragged herring-bone pattern of gullies marking its backbone into the mountains, I could see the "river," the dry sand merely being whiter and more defined than the surrounding dun to which the eyes were accustomed.

The wind, blowing almost lengthwise along the boom, had pushed it down to leeward as far as the cables would allow, boom and cables making a herring-bone with the cables as taut as could be.

Below, the skein of ski runs and the fir trees herring-boning the side of the valley blurred as the visibility grew worse.