Definition of "herring-bone" [herring-bone]

• Alternate spelling of herringbone (noun)

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• "He did so again and again this week at a Healey-fest organised at the People's Palace in the East End by telly-don and herring-bone suit fanatic, Peter Hennessy, himself now a people's peer."
• "He was gone, only green herring-bone disk pattern where there once was so much information."
• "Same as herring-bone cloud formations, living off a wind shear ; the fastest-growing disturbance produces the size of the herringbone spacing, since it takes over first."