a pattern of columns of short parallel lines with all the lines in one column sloping one way and lines in adjacent columns sloping the other way; it is used in weaving, masonry, parquetry, embroidery
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Herringbone \Her"ring*bone`\ (h[e^]r"r[i^]ng*b[=o]n`), a. Pertaining to, or like, the spine of a herring; especially, characterized by an arrangement of work in rows of parallel lines, which in the alternate rows slope in different directions.
{Herringbone stitch}, a kind of cross-stitch in needlework, chiefly used in flannel. --Simmonds.
A three-arch bridge crosses it and leads to the unusual oak-timbered, red brick house - many of the bricks laid in a herringbone pattern. The house is superb, with a great hall with linenfold panelling on the ground floor.
David Burns is photographed wearing a wool dark grey herringbone suit from Brooks Brothers and a shirt from Crichton.
The labs were not to know which was which, but the distinctive herringbone pattern of the shroud could have given its sample away.