tiger striping
n.— «Open a woman’s magazine and look at how many ads there are for creams to remove not “very lovely tiger striping” but “unsightly stretch marks.” We are NEVER told that stretch marks are attractive. You can’t cure a lifetime of put-downs with one “I think you’re pretty.”» —“Re: something I just wanted to complain about” by Janis Maria Cortese Usenet: alt.pagan July 15, 1992. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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