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Stripes

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Stripes 

broad bands of colored cloth (the color depending on the combat arm) sewn on pants along the side seams, adopted in almost all armies.

In the Soviet armed forces stripes have been instituted for uniforms of marshals, generals, and students of the Suvorov schools. All servicemen in cossack units also wore stripes. Stripes have also been instituted for high officials in some civilian ministries, such as the office of the procurator, the railroad, and the customs services.
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A white ass, but not an albino, has been described without either spinal or shoulder-stripe; and these stripes are sometimes very obscure, or actually quite lost, in dark-coloured asses.
The Origin of Species by Darwin, Charles View in context
Then the huntsman said, 'Give the old one stripes three times a day and hay once; give the next (who was the servant-maid) stripes once a day and hay three times; and give the youngest (who was the beautiful lady) hay three times a day and no stripes': for he could not find it in his heart to have her beaten.
Fairy Tales by Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm View in context
Wherefore, bind the heathen crew, and bestow on them a small matter of stripes apiece, as earnest of our future justice.
From Twice Told Tales by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context
 
 
 
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