Chequerboard

Word CHEQUERBOARD
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Definitions and meanings of "Chequerboard"

What do we mean by chequerboard?

A pattern of squares of alternating colours.

A board, usually square, covered with such a pattern; especially such a board with 8×8 squares, used to play chess and draughts/checkers.

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The word "chequerboard" in example sentences

"This was the infamous yellow and black chequerboard that Town had worn when losing 10-1 to Man City," writes David Stephenson of that final incident. ❋ Unknown (2011)

I chose purple and yellow for my compliments and did a simple chequerboard of squares. ❋ Katelnorth (2008)

And on the right is the piece I added a second border to - the centre is the square in a square in a square in pink and brown, the second border is the chequerboard and I added the pink border with applique vines and leaves. ❋ Katelnorth (2008)

The cookies are all from one ETA: onedoublebatch of sugar cookie dough – there are: big plain cookies with yellow flowers, chequerboard (cocoa and plain) with chocolate on the back (drying upside down), plain flower with 100s&1000s in centre, little flowers with 100s&1000s kneaded in, jam and marmalade drops and cinnamon stars (little and crunchy and sweet). ❋ Unknown (2009)

As she emerged on to the landing, she paused to look down on the chequerboard entrance hall. ❋ Mosse, Kate (2007)

There was a black and red chequerboard tiled floor and a delicate cream paper of yellow and green flowers on the walls. ❋ Mosse, Kate (2007)

The golden sunlight filtered down through the canopy of leaves, casting chequerboard patterns on the ground. ❋ Mosse, Kate (2007)

The small group crossed the chequerboard hall and L-onie pushed open the door. ❋ Mosse, Kate (2007)

The floor was a chequerboard of black and red tiles and the walls were covered in a delicate cream paper decorated with yellow and green flowers, giving an impression of light and space. ❋ Mosse, Kate (2007)

'Well,' he said with a chequerboard display of teeth, 'we got ourselves into some hard situations when we were a similar age to these wee lads here. ❋ Chadwick, Elizabeth (2004)

These massy hedgerows cutting up the good pasture-land into chequerboard squares! — after the thready rail-and-post fences that offered no hindrance to the eye. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Her mind was filled with funeral orations, the cloying scent of chequerboard bouquets of flowers, the smell of rain in the air, and newly-turned earth, gleaming caskets being lowered into the ground, ashes to ashes, dust to dust, the muffled sobs of the mourners, death hanging in the air like a suffocating shroud. ❋ Lustbader, Eric (1990)

Johannesburg, at first a mere pattern of surveyors pegs, sucked the scattered encampments onto her grassy chequerboard and arranged them in a semblance of order along her streets. ❋ Smith, Wilbur (1964)

Yew trees and a herb garden in a chequerboard pattern were planted along John Fearon Walk after it was identified as a hotspot for anti-social behaviour. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The prints, taken from vintage textiles, were digitally manipulated to morph seamlessly from a floral to a trompe l'oeil lace to a psychedelic distorted chequerboard. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Grounded in conceptualism, each artwork is completely different from the last, from a skull with a chequerboard pattern to his Ping Pond Table ❋ Unknown (2011)

Keep stepping lightly as the squares on the chequerboard shift beneath your feet. ❋ Martin Chilton (2011)

You first need to capture a set of chequerboard images with your camera (provided as part of the application package), which you can then feed into the Lens Profile Creator utility. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Delicious muffins and scones are piled high atop chequerboard tables, ❋ Unknown (2010)

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