Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Usage examples of "pin-stripe".
Sergeant Eaton Freedman fastened his belt holster and shrugged into a pin-striped suitcoat that had been too tight before he tried to stuff a gun under it.
Saturday morning to find standing on the walkway in front of the steps a small, unassuming, elderly gentleman nattily decked out in pin-striped suit complete with bow tie and hat.
When he arrived, Torner was playing the slots in the front, dressed in dark corduroy pants, a blue pin-striped shirt, collarless jacket.
PALACE ANTEROOM - NIGHT Inside an anteroom, like a Roman arena -- marble pillars, red carpet, golden walls, ceiling murals -- The World Council ministers assemble: slick pin-striped suits or African robes, Chinese Mao-suits, Indian Nehru-jackets, all distinguished men and women, surrounded by -- Fussing officials, minor dignitaries, and butlers, bowing and weaving a web of diplomatic protocol, interrupted by -- 218 CENTER OF HALL The sight of Emma Peel in black leather.
Not present at that lunch in the past were the white Egyptian cotton shirt from Turnbull and Asser, the dark-blue silk tie, the white crepe de Chine monogrammed handkerchief, or the forty-five-year-old double-breasted pin-stripe suit, teamed with a pair of black brogues that I had bought from Shoe Express in Northampton the year before for nineteen pounds and ninety-nine pence.
On the other side of Nash, down the bar is some young guy with sideburns, wearing a good pin-striped suit.
For more formal wear he laid out on the bed a pin-striped, blue-black, double-breasted suit, suspenders, wide floral necktie and white shirt with celluloid collar.
One beefy man well over six feet tall, in an elegant cowboy hat, polished cowboy boots, a pin-striped suit and a western string tie, capsulizes the matter so: "I'm an unholy son of a bitch if those amazing fucking Jews haven't gone and fucking upstaged the Bicentennial!
Chief of Staff Bergholz, crewcut and crisp in his ubiquitous dark blue pin-striped suit.
James was interviewing a large woman in a pin-striped suit and a monocle, who looked not unlike Thomas the Tank Engine.
He'd decided to wear a navy pin-striped suit, brilliant red silk tie and an oxford blue buttoned-down shirt.
Bean catalog, with a blue pin-striped oxford cloth shirt and cotton slacks with cargo pockets on the sides.
The hero, whether female (in Blue Steel, 1990) or male (in Point Break, 1991) usually falls under the spell of a character (anyone from a pin-stripes psycho to a surfer-dude who robs banks) deeply in touch with their dark side, and then the hero -- and the movie -- start acting really stupid.
He had on a beautiful gray pin-stripe suit and sported a red flower in his lapel.