chequer

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{f} diversify with color, variegate; mark like a checkerboard (also checker)
variegate with different colors, shades, or patterns
{i} (British) tiny plastic or wood piece (red or black) used in checkers
Same as Checker
mark into squares or draw squares on; draw crossed lines on
chequered
Alternative spelling of checkered
Chequered
chequy
Chequers
the official country house of the British Prime Minister, about 30 miles northwest of London. Chinese chequers
chequered
{s} decorated with a pattern of squares
chequered
cheq·uered in AM, use checkered1. If a person or organization has had a chequered career or history, they have had a varied past with both good and bad periods. He had a chequered political career spanning nearly forty years Alan had led a very chequered past and had been to prison lots of times
chequered
patterned with alternating squares of color
chequered
Something that is chequered has a pattern with squares of two or more different colours. red chequered tablecloths. = checked. a British spelling of checkered
chequered
mostly, UK, altspellpar, checkered
chequers
spaced millefiori canes separated by a checkerboard-style grid of short filigree twists, colored ribbons, or glass rods
chequers
A public-house sign In England without doubt the arms of Fitzwarren, the head of which house, in the days of the Henrys, was invested with the power of licensing vintners and publicans, may have helped to popularise this sign, which indicated that the house was duly licensed; but the sign has been found on houses in exhumed Pompeii, and probably referred to some game, like our draughts, which might be indulged in on the premises Possibly in some cases certain public-houses were at one time used for the payment of doles, etc , and a chequer-board was provided for the purpose In such cases the sign indicated the house where the parish authorities met for that and other purposes
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