zebra-stripehttp://www.oed.com/dictionary/zebra-stripe_n%3Ftab%3Dmeaning_and_usezebra stripe, n.
Revised 2018

zebra stripenoun

  1. 1807–
    1. 1807
      It is beautifully variegated with zebra stripes which appear through its whole substance.
      R. A. Salisbury, Paradisus Londinensis (1808) vol. II. i. Pl. lxxxix
    2. 1971
      An ultra-modern bar in zebra stripes.
      ‘D. Shannon’, Ringer (1972) 148
    3. 2015
      It has also been suggested that zebra stripes keep disease-carrying flies, such as tsetses and horseflies, from biting.
      Africa News: Conversation (Johannesburg) (Nexis) 20 August

Originally published as part of the entry for zebra, n.

zebra, n. was revised in June 2018.