Striped

ppl. a. Also 8 Sc. stripped. [f. STRIPE v.² + -ED¹.

  For earlier instances of striped (used predicatively, and therefore here treated as pa. pple.) see STRIPE v.² It is possible that the Eng. vb. may have been evolved from striped ad. Du. strijpt or MLG. striped; cf. OHG. strîphaht (MHG. strîfeht; mod.G. gestreift), MSw. striputter.]

  1.  Marked with a stripe or stripes, having a band or bands of color, streaked.

1617.  Moryson, Itin., III. 174. The Greekes … weare Shasses, that is striped linnen (commonly white and blew) wound about the skirts of a little cap.

a. 1618.  Rates of Merchandizes, I 1 b. Stript or tufted Canuas.

1698.  Fryer, Acc. E. India & P., 24. Their Junks had three Masts, wearing an East-India strip’d Ancient.

1751.  Rep. Comm. Linen Manuf. (1773), II. 293. Chequed and Striped Linen.

1752.  D. Stewart, in Scots Mag. (1753), July, 343/2. Blue stripped trowsers.

1821.  Byron, Heav. & Earth, iii. 179. And the striped tiger shall lie down to die.

1832.  Lindley, Introd. Bot., 407. Striped (vittatus): when there are longitudinal stripes of one colour crossing another.

1860.  Tyndall, Glac., I. ix. 62. The shining snow with its striped faults and precipices.

1874.  H. H. Cole, Catal. Ind. Art S. Kens. Mus., 261. Woven striped pattern of green, yellow, and red … stripes alternating with bands of red.

  b.  In numerous specific names of animals, plants and minerals.

1629.  Parkinson, Parad. (1904), 593. The peare of Ierusalem, or the stript peare, whose barke while it is young, is as plainly seene to be stript with greene, red, and yellow, as the fruit it selfe is also.

1769.  Pennant, Brit. Zool., III. 207. Striped wrasse. Ibid. (1781), Quad., I. 250. The Striped Hyæna.

1783.  Latham, Gen. Synop. Birds, II. I. 349. Striped Flycatcher.

1815.  Aikin, Min. (ed. 2), 244. Striped jasper. Occurs massive.

1832.  J. Rennie, Consp. Butterfl. & M., 25. The Striped Hawk (Deilephila Livornica).

1842.  Z. Thompson, Hist. Vermont, I. 174. Striped Maple. Acer Pennsylvanicum.

1859.  Bartlett, Dict. Amer. (ed. 2), 458. Striped bass.

1901.  H. Seebohm, Birds of Siberia, xxx. 308. The peasant had shot me a couple of striped squirrels.

  c.  Of muscular fiber: Divided by transverse bands into striations.

1854.  Orr’s Circ. Sci., Organ. Nat., I. 48. One of these [kinds] occurs in the voluntary muscles, and is named, from conspicuous cross markings, the striped muscular fibre.

1880.  Gibbes, Histol., 73. Striped muscle is best shown in one of the large water beetles, Hydrophilus piceus.

  d.  Masonry. Striped work, chisel marks made across a stone at an angle of 45°.

1842.  Gwilt, Encycl. Archit., § 1914. Striped work must also be first droved and then striped.

  e.  Of a person: Entitled to wear a (good-conduct, etc.) stripe.

1890.  Pall Mall Gaz., 12 June, 5/2. In the E.C. district all the striped men were ordered to have their stripes forfeited.

  2.  U.S. ? = STREAKED ppl. a. 2.

1840.  Haliburton, Clockm., Ser. III. ix. That’s the reason married folks are so everlastin’ striped; they never romp.

  3.  In parasynthetic adjs. Cf. STRIPE sb.³ 10.

1731.  Miller, Gard. Dict., s.v. Tilia, The strip’d-leav’d Lime-tree.

1782.  Latham, Gen. Synop. Birds, I. II. 563. Striped-bellied Woodpecker. Ibid. (1783), II. I. 275. Striped Headed Finch.

1829.  Griffith, trans. Cuvier, VII. 415. Striped-tailed or Angola Hornbill.

1859.  Wood, Illustr. Nat. Hist., I. 482. The Banded Bandicoot, or Striped-backed Bandicoot.