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• a variation of barber pole.

barber's pole

British  

noun

1. a sign outside a barber's shop consisting of a pole painted with red and white spiral stripes

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barber's pole

Adds Miyashita: "These puzzles beckon our curiosity. After all, spiral forms in nature have inspired human creations ranging from rotini pasta, to a barber's pole or even portrayals of the biblical 'Tower of Babel'."

From Science Daily ● Sep. 1, 2026

In the corner of the players' canteen, now huge and, like most of the building, light and open-plan, is the familiar sight of a red, white and blue barber's pole.

From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2025

Some were leaning back, getting a shampoo at the sinks in the shelter’s barbershop, where a striped lit-up barber’s pole spun outside the door.

From New York Times ● Jun. 14, 2018

The barber’s pole with a helix of red, white and blue stripe was revolving outside.

From Forbes ● Jan. 16, 2015

Round the barber's pole gather much curious fact and fiction.

From At the Sign of the Barber's Pole Studies In Hirsute History by William Andrews

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