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pinstripe

pinstripe

15 4.9
A very thin colored line on cloth, often on suits
  • noun
  • /ˈpɪnˌstraɪp/
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  • He wore a stylish pinstripe suit for the wedding ceremony, which made him look sharp.
  • pinstripe suit
  • blue pinstripe

Especially if it's like pinstripe pants, dress pants.

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Examples

  • Oh, you always wear your blue pinstripe to board meetings, sir.

  • Ernest Ballard says, "Looks like the Hornets changed up the pinstripes on their jerseys."

    Blog text (26)
  • Next up we have this Navy and white little pinstripe top.

  • Well, I like your blue pinstripe.

  • There's the dark pinstripe suit.

  • Why don't you wear the gray pinstripe we bought you last week?

  • Let's see how you look in the brown one with the pinstripes.

  • It's this pale blue pinstripe playsuit with like a cold shoulder detail and also a little bow.

  • Johan asked who his tailor was, because his impossibly smart pinstripe suit was just a complete knockout.

  • Now dressed in a pinstripe Hugo Boss suit, Jack stands with two uniformed police and looks to Doreen.

    Fiction book (2000)

How Thin

pinstripe
15 4.9
stripe
101 1.0

Surface Forms

pinstripe singular
pinstripes plural

Morphology

pinstripe = pin + stripe (transparent) = pin + stripe

The compound literally combines 'pin' and 'stripe' to mean a very thin stripe; the relation is directly inferable from the components.

Etymology

Pinstripe combines pin and stripe, so imagine a line 'as thin as a pin' running along the cloth. So a pinstripe is a very thin, regular stripe you often see on suits and other fabrics.