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butcher stripes

butcher stripes noun: vertical stripes on a garment, usually thin white stripes on a navy blue background.

Noun

butcher stripes pl (plural only)

  1. (plural, plural-only) Vertical stripes on a garment, usually thin white stripes on a navy blue background.

Forms of butcher stripes

alternative formbutcher's stripes

Origin of butcher stripes

Traditionally seen on butchers' aprons.

Questions about butcher stripes

What does butcher stripes mean?
Butcher stripes means vertical stripes on a garment, usually thin white stripes on a navy blue background.
What part of speech is butcher stripes?
Butcher stripes is a noun.

Words near butcher stripes in the dictionary

  1. butcher knives
  2. butcher paper
  3. butcher papers
  4. butcher shop
  5. butcher shops
  6. butcher stripes
  7. butcher's
  8. butcher's apron
  9. butcher's aprons
  10. butcher's bill
  11. butcher's block

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