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ring-streaked

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[ring-streekt] / ˈrɪŋˌstrikt /

adjective

  1. having streaks or bands of color around the body.


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I dare say Laban thought none the worse of Jacob for his plan of making the ewes bring forth ring-streaked lambs.

From Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge by Coleridge, Henry Nelson

Lift up now thine eyes and see that the rams which leap upon the cattle are ring-streaked, speckled, and grizzled; for I have seen all that Laban does unto thee.

From Superstition In All Ages (1732) Common Sense by Knoop, Anna

In the border at my feet someone had attempted a clearance of the weeds; and here lay his hoe, matted with bindweed and ring-streaked with the silvery tracks of snails.

From Old Fires and Profitable Ghosts by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir

Beards of awful size, moustaches of every shade and length under a foot, phizzes of all colors and contortions, four-story hats with sky-scraping feathers, costumes ring-streaked, speckled, monstrous, and incredible, made up the motley crew.

From A Collection of College Words and Customs by Hall, Benjamin Homer

And the flocks conceived before the rods, and brought forth cattle ring-streaked, speckled and spotted.

From What a Young Husband Ought to Know by Stall, Sylvanus