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chalk stripe

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noun

  1. (on a fabric) a pattern of thin white lines on a dark ground.

Etymology

Origin of chalk stripe

First recorded in 1940–45

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The body is a dark black, and the wheels are of the same rich colour, slightly picked out here and there with a chalk stripe.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, November 13, 1841 by Various

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