The story
The origin of the stripes is associated with the House of Árpád, the founding dynasty of Hungary.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Árpád stripe
Today it means: Any of the stripes (barry of eight gules and argent) forming a particular heraldic and vexillologic configuration used since the early 13th century mainly in Hungarian heraldry. Full definition →