striped gopher

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a ground squirrel marked with stripes, especially the thirteen-lined ground squirrel.

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Let’s start with some etymology: What are the origins of the typographical word “bracket”?

An Americanism dating back to 1940–45

Clad in a blue, striped button-down, a silver watch adorning his left wrist, Huckabee beams on the cover.
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She is smiling, a pink-striped hat on her head and a mini rainbow lollipop sticking out of her mouth.
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Peterson is wearing a crisp white-and-blue striped shirt and fraying paisley ascot.
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The critters resemble the gopher from Caddyshack… if it had rabies.
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Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch.
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He swerved as he passed it, and, looking, saw that it was a bundle wrapped in a striped blanket.
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The badge of the order was a ribbon, striped black, white and yellow, and the device something like an icicle.
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A big marquee of striped canvas had been erected; the guests trooped into it.
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Her hull of silver was striped with a broad red band; her multiple helicopters were dazzling flashes in the sunlight.
Astounding Stories, May, 1931|Various
Humiliation overcomes me as my eye falls, for the first time in the full light of day, upon my striped clothes.
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