candy-striped
adjective
: having a pattern of colored stripes and white stripes that look like the stripes on some sticks of candy
a candy-striped shirt
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Lively, coincidentally, wore a near-matching outfit to her former costar, pairing a pink and white candy-striped button-down with another green button-down, an oversized olive green-gray suit jacket with matching trousers and a slouchy green bag.
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Anna Kaufman, USA Today, 12 Feb. 2026
Mountainous heaps of tailings, candy-striped with layers of gray and brown minerals, sprawl away for miles.
—Vince Beiser, WIRED, 22 Aug. 2024
Retro studio tours Universal Studios Hollywood is celebrating its 60th anniversary from now through Aug. 11 with a nostalgic tour — aboard retro red-and-white candy-striped Glamor Trams, no less — through six decades of Universal theme park history.
—Jackie Burrell, The Mercury News, 6 May 2024
New research reveals that two species of candy-striped spider have secret night lives, leaving their cobwebs to carry out violent predation after dark.
—Lesley Evans Ogden, New York Times, 11 Mar. 2023
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Anna Kaufman, USA Today, 12 Feb. 2026
Mountainous heaps of tailings, candy-striped with layers of gray and brown minerals, sprawl away for miles.
—Vince Beiser, WIRED, 22 Aug. 2024
Retro studio tours Universal Studios Hollywood is celebrating its 60th anniversary from now through Aug. 11 with a nostalgic tour — aboard retro red-and-white candy-striped Glamor Trams, no less — through six decades of Universal theme park history.
—Jackie Burrell, The Mercury News, 6 May 2024
New research reveals that two species of candy-striped spider have secret night lives, leaving their cobwebs to carry out violent predation after dark.
—Lesley Evans Ogden, New York Times, 11 Mar. 2023
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“Candy-striped.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/candy-striped. Accessed 23 Feb. 2026.
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