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• a variation of checker.

chequer

British  

/ ˈtʃɛkə /

noun

1. any of the marbles, pegs, or other pieces used in the game of Chinese chequers

2. 1. a pattern consisting of squares of different colours, textures, or materials

   2. one of the squares in such a pattern

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verb

1. to make irregular in colour or character; variegate

2. to mark off with alternating squares of colour

Etymology

Origin of chequer

C13: chessboard, from Anglo-French escheker, from eschec _check

Example Sentences

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chequer

Richard Austen Butler, 48> able intellectual and pamphleteer of the party -Chancellor of the Ex chequer.

From Time Magazine Archive

I shall begin some chequer work for him directly, and it will be ripe for the post by the time I hear from you next after this.

From Letters of John Keats to His Family and Friends by John Keats

I would rise from my book and pull the blind aside, and see the snow and the glittering hollies chequer a Scottish garden, and the winter moonlight brighten the white hills.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume 9 by Robert Louis Stevenson

Qu is sometimes sounded, in words derived from the French, like k, as conquer, liquor, risque, chequer.

From A Grammar of the English Tongue by Samuel Johnson

Tall bennets and red sorrel rise above the grass, white ox-eye daisies chequer it below; the distant hedge quivers as the air, set in motion by the intense heat, runs along.

From Nature Near London by Richard Jefferies