pinwale

[pin-weyl]

adjective

1. (of a fabric, especially corduroy) having very thin wales.

Word History and Origins

Origin of pinwale¹

pin + wale ¹

Example Sentences

The original is of durable moleskin, but it has been fabricated for Bergdorf Goodman in covetable pinwale corduroy.

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I’m admiring the sock display at Sam’s when a man walks in and runs his hand along a pair of pinwale corduroy Levi’s and says with a hint of reverence, “They still make these?”

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The N.S.A. achieved a technical breakthrough in 2010 when analysts first matched images collected separately in two databases — one in a huge N.S.A. database code-named Pinwale, and another in the government’s main terrorist watch list database, known as Tide — according to N.S.A. documents.

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The newspaper reported that the search tool allowed analysts to “search with no prior authorization through vast databases containing emails, online chats and the browsing histories of millions of individuals.”NSA slides describing the system published with the Guardian article indicated that analysts used it to sift through government databases, including Pinwale, the NSA’s primary storage system for e-mail and other text, and Marina, the primary storage and analysis tool for “metadata.”

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These include, the annotated slides suggest, databases where intercepted content and data is stored: Nucleon for voice, Pinwale for video, Mainway for call records and Marina for internet records.

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