a. [f. STRIPE sb.3 + -Y.] Having, marked with, or suggestive of stripes or bands of color.
1513. MS. P. R. O. Papers 5 Hen. VIII., No. 4101. Itm’ a standing bedde of dornix strypy.
1847. Leitch, trans. C. O. Müller’s Anc. Art, § 324. 328. The undulated and stripy nature of light.
1891. M. Muriel Dowie, Girl in Karp., ii. 12. There was a flutter of shutters and stripey awnings upon them.
1898. Kipling, Day’s Work, 107. It [his tiger] is supposed to be a clouded animal—not stripy, but blotchy, like a tortoise-shell tom-cat.
