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  • adjective having red stripes

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Examples

  • The other end was being held by an enraged farmer with a red-striped hat.

    Bubble in the Bathtub Jo Nesbo 2011

  • “Why it has to be …,” said a farmer, using his pitchfork to scratch himself under his warm, red-striped hat.

    Bubble in the Bathtub Jo Nesbo 2011

  • The other end was being held by an enraged farmer with a red-striped hat.

    Bubble in the Bathtub Jo Nesbo 2011

  • Slight tangent: I actually think the iconic red-striped sweater freaks me out a little bit more.

    Top 10 Instruments of Death in Slasher Films » Scene-Stealers 2009

  • "I built it so we could obsess over it," Mr. Savage said on a recent Saturday, wearing orange-and red-striped socks that played off his signature red hair.

    A Model Maker's Workshop Nancy Keates 2011

  • “Why it has to be …,” said a farmer, using his pitchfork to scratch himself under his warm, red-striped hat.

    Bubble in the Bathtub Jo Nesbo 2011

  • Johnny nodded in the direction of the bar, a red-striped structure shaped like a circus tent with LEAPING HORSE LIBATIONS lettered on bright yellow banners.

    Charlotte’s Family Tree « A Fly in Amber 2009

  • The genius of the conservative emergence during the 1970s was in the way it reached out to three large, deeply discontented tribes, and brought them all together under Lee Atwater's "big tent" -- which quickly turned into a red-striped big top full of the most bizarre acts anyone had ever seen.

    Archive 2008-01-01 2008

  • It is also home to black bear, takin, golden monkeys, musk deer, blood pheasants, minivets, rock squirrel, and black- and red-striped swallowtails.27

    When a Billion Chinese Jump Jonathan Watts 2010

  • The moderator, a slim guy with hair that looks like it has been glued into place, brushes a speck off his tuxedo, adjusts his red-striped tie, and begins speaking right on cue.

    out of my mind SHARON M. DRAPER 2010

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