What is "pinstripe"

Usage examples of "pinstripe".

Milton grinned at her, perspiring in pinstripes, and once again the tragedy cuff link glinted in the sun.

There were three more armed, black-suited spooks beside the pool, plus a short, balding man in a lavender suit, a severely tailored woman who looked like an older, sour version of Christine, and a tall, graying man in formal pinstripe and dark glasses.

I paint airbrush pictures on the sides of custom vans, and pinstripe motorcycle fuel tanks, that kind of stuff.

I'd paint them dark grey with pinstripes on the outside and the interiors could be wood-paneled and clublike with oriental carpets, leather chairs, and of course all the office accoutrements, a desk, a fax, an assistant.

For two years Celia threw in her lot with the decadent London young, gave parties for shits in satin plus-fours and bitches in neon camisoles, ate at Tastes and Casa Ari beside pricks with powder-puffed hair and tarts in three-piece pinstripe suits, went to Serena's and Poor on the arms of bastards in high-heeled gambados and slags in tapestry body stockings.

He had made his living tattooing, pinstriping cars and trucks, and airbrushing monsters and muscle cars onto T-shirts.

A tall, imperturbable man with a round scrubbed face and shiny slicked back hair, dressed as ever in frock coat and pinstripe trousers, a dicky bow and starched white shirt.

Down the first base line, twenty-five American players in Yankee pinstripes with red, white and blue hats fidgeted, adjusted jewelry, chewed pistachios, and scratched crotch the way ballplayers always did.

The governor checked his black cashmere pinstripe suit for a Halon residue, but the miracle extinguisher left not a trace.

The fork was a familiar one in folk tales the world over, and the good guys and the bad guys, whether in chaps, breechclouts, serapes, leopardskins, or banker's gray pinstripes, all separated here.

I don't look like the sort who would be roaring along in a monster macho truck that is dark blue with pinstriping, chrome, mud flaps, scanner and big, swooping antennas that go with the CB and two-way radios.

Spotless polo shirts with a restrained brown pinstripe, matching brown trousers gathered bulkily around his waist with a heavy leather belt.

The man was young and Hispanic with a snap-brim hat and purple pinstripe suit.

He looked suave and opulent, with hair showing silver at the sides of his tanned face, a dark suit with narrow pinstripe, and expensively glittering tie clip and links.

Hammer, out of breath and perspiring beneath her gray pinstripe suit, thought Ehrhart looked like a traffic cone.