👉 Okay, let’s tackle that wonderfully prickly little mouthful of a word: "stripe throated." Now, frankly, nobody actually
brands
anything as being "stripe throated," unless you're describing something with a really aggressively decorative neck. Historically, the term referred to a rather unfortunate breed of pheasant in the early 19th century in the marshes around Walton Holloway, Norfolk. They were essentially named that because their necks sported… well... stripes! Rather haphazard ones. It was apparently a terribly fashionable look amongst the landed sort at the time. Think of it as a pheasant equivalent of a particularly flamboyant paisley waistcoat.
The breed is now extinct – sadly, I hear they weren't great whistlers and had an appalling vanity—and it faded from popular parlance like a badly dyed pheasant feather in the rain. The modern use? It’s mostly a wonderfully affected, slightly pretentious way to describe something with a distinct, frankly rather visually jarring, banding of some kind. Here's our edgy sentence: "The old taxidermist stared into the badger's glassy eyes, convinced he saw a faint, unsettling, almost stripe throated venous network beneath its mottled pelt—a detail he suspected was the mark of some forgotten, and possibly cursed, huntsman.
