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Definition of "pinstriped" [pinstriped]

  • Having pinstripes (adjective)
  • Made from such fabric (adjective)

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Use "pinstriped" in a sentence
  • "I think most people see the goons as just the usual hired thugs movie villains always have on hand as cannon fodder, and it doesn't matter what they're wearing, they're the same sort of generic bad guys as mugs in pinstriped suits and gunslingers in black hats and Bond villains in jumpsuits and Stormtroopers and Nazis."
  • "A scissored article slipped from her hands and floated to the floor — and there he was, grinning at me in monochrome, as striking as ever in the only memento his daddy had left behind after driving off with the other Other Woman: A grey-on-black pinstriped suit, swinging from a coat hanger in the hallway closet."
  • "Likely inspired by his own retrospective currently up at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts and traveling to Dallas and San Francisco, Gaultier's DNA was in full force as his pinstriped sharp masculine-feminine styling (men in skirts), variations of trench coats, and intrasia sweaters (done in feathers) paraded down the catwalk."