A pole painted with spiralling red and white stripes and hung outside barbers' shops as a business sign.
（红白条相间的）理发店旋转彩柱
Example sentencesExamples
The shop is now boarded up and the barber's pole has been removed.
To prove it, she will soon erect the crowning glory to her Stanway cut and style shop for men - a barber's pole outside.
Barbers and surgeons went their separate ways in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, but the red stripe down the barber's pole still commemorates this annual blood-letting ritual.
A white rainbow now forms over him just as he is shot, spun like a barber's pole of whirlwind into a shop's window; just lying there in a bed of pork chops, sausages and veal hearts.
These attractive and memorable signs are, apart from the barber's pole, the only ancient shop signs to have survived into our transient age of plastic.
Definition of barber's pole in US English:
barber's pole
(also barber pole)
noun
A pole painted with spiraling red and white stripes and hung outside barbershops as a business sign.
（红白条相间的）理发店旋转彩柱
Example sentencesExamples
The shop is now boarded up and the barber's pole has been removed.
These attractive and memorable signs are, apart from the barber's pole, the only ancient shop signs to have survived into our transient age of plastic.
A white rainbow now forms over him just as he is shot, spun like a barber's pole of whirlwind into a shop's window; just lying there in a bed of pork chops, sausages and veal hearts.
Barbers and surgeons went their separate ways in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, but the red stripe down the barber's pole still commemorates this annual blood-letting ritual.
To prove it, she will soon erect the crowning glory to her Stanway cut and style shop for men - a barber's pole outside.