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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
striped
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
shirt
▪ The striped shirt man now began to talk about the portfolio.
▪ He was photographed by Man Ray in a sharp, dark suit with a striped shirt and white collar.
▪ He clashed striped shirts, check jackets and spotted ties.
▪ He was six feet two, and wore dark blue trousers with a blue and white striped shirt.
▪ Him: suit jacket, £680; striped shirt, £190.
▪ He was elderly, bald, very thin, wearing a striped shirt of the kind that have detachable collars.
▪ She wore a blue denim skirt on the knee and a striped shirt with the collar turned up.
▪ Lewis, in three-piece suit and striped shirt, supported the reintroduction of corporal punishment in schools.
tie
▪ The striped tie was neat beneath the collar of a white blouse.
▪ In a light cream linen suit, cream silk shirt and gold striped tie, he was alarmingly attractive.
▪ His striped tie was neatly knotted.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ He was wearing a navy blue suit and a striped shirt.
▪ My aunt knitted me a blue and white striped sweater for Christmas.
▪ stripey socks
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ He was six feet two, and wore dark blue trousers with a blue and white striped shirt.
▪ I used to go home on the train with striped legs.
▪ In 1975, a record kill year, approximately 20,000 striped dolphins were killed in the drives.
▪ It was a small plain whitewashed structure with a striped dome on top.
▪ Snipe - striped plumage camouflaged the colour of dead winter reeds - probed the mud with bills bizarrely long.
▪ The average annual catch, mainly of striped dolphins, in the drive fisheries between 1975 and 1986 was 4734.
▪ When he first started out, he used to wear a pair of very baggy, red striped pyjamas!
▪ Zollner's illusion makes parallel lines seem to diverge by placing them on a zigzag striped background.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Striped

Stripe \Stripe\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Striped; p. pr. & vb. n. Striping.]

  1. To make stripes upon; to form with lines of different colors or textures; to variegate with stripes.

  2. To strike; to lash. [R.]

Striped

Striped \Striped\, a. Having stripes of different colors; streaked.

Striped bass. (Zo["o]l.) See under Bass.

Striped maple (Bot.), a slender American tree ( Acer Pennsylvanicum) with finely striped bark. Called also striped dogwood, and moosewood.

Striped mullet. (Zo["o]l.) See under Mullet, 2.

Striped snake (Zo["o]l.), the garter snake.

Striped squirrel (Zo["o]l.), the chipmunk.

Wiktionary
striped
  1. Having stripes, decorated or marked with bands differing in color. v

  2. (en-past of: stripe)

WordNet
striped

adj. marked or decorated with stripes [syn: stripy]

Wikipedia

Usage examples of "striped".

July flowers, and striped balsamine, singing birds and fluttering insects, full of extravagant beauty.

He threaded a Green Caddis Fly onto his line and fished for two hours, catching a rainbow trout and two small striped bass on barbless hooks.

He was in a striped blue western-cut shirt, long-sleeved with pearl snaps, and worn blue jeans under equally worn batwing chaps held up by a wide, silver-buckled belt.

The broadest part of Moor Fields, directly before Bedlam, had been outlined with a quadrilateral, and striped with a St.

There were several different kinds: huge black bumblebees, a smaller kind, striped with black and yellow fuzz, and the smooth lethal shapes of wasps, bellies pointed as daggers.

His beltless pants drooped off his hips, showing two inches of skin and three inches of black and yellow striped underwear below the tail of his shirt.

He wore the diagonally striped old school tie, his hair was brilliantined and carefully brushed, and the sleek lines of the mustache had been trimmed that morning.

What the day before it had taken him three hours to make from striped pants, a jacketlike rag with bold checks, a brimless hat, and, with the help of an incomplete and ramshackle ladder, an armful of freshly cut willow switches, he tore down the following morning, to construct from the same materials an oddity of a very different race and faith, but which like its predecessor commanded birds to keep their distance.

The fifth and most splendid was that of Sir Bass Foster, Duke of Norfolk, Earl of Rutland, Markgraf von Velegrad, Baron of Strathtyne, Knight of the Garter, Noble Fellow of the Order of the Roten Adler of the Holy Roman Empire, newly invested Noble Fellow of the Striped Bull of Ui Neill, also newly invested Lay Brother of the Christian Military Order of the Consecrated Knights of Breifne, Lord Commander of the Royal Horse of Arthur III Tudor, King of England and Wales, and, just now, Captain-General of the North for Ard-Righ Brian VIII, would-be conqueror of all Ireland.

Claudius Mellit, whose patients usually saw him in striped trousers and black jacket, was sensibly attired for winter golf in waterproof trousers and a comfortably sloppy Norwegian sweater.

I was slathering Mercurochrome on the deep scratches that striped my arms and hands.

One man in green and yellow plaid trousers, mismatched with a red and blue striped windbreaker, set them all off again.

Ailoura moved within the circle of speakers, her unnaturally flared and pungent striped musteline tail waving perilously close to the humans.

They wore striped and particoloured breeches, voluminous shirts only half-buttoned or laced up at their chests, and brightly embroidered boleros.

Each evening after supper, she put on her peacoat, wrapped her striped muffler around her neck, positioned her ear muffs, and rigged her pedometer to her sneaker.