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Chequers

1

/ ˈtʃɛkəz /

noun

  1. an estate and country house in S England, in central Buckinghamshire: the official country residence of the British prime minister
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


chequers

2

/ ˈtʃɛkəz /

noun

  1. functioning as singular another name for draughts
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Example Sentences

Is one meant to infer that he began to write on his return from Chequers, and was interrupted; or is it a slip?

Ostensibly the letter thanks her for letting him interrupt her weekend at Chequers.

When will we discover what was really discussed between Cameron and James when they met at Chequers in November 2010?

We now know the details of the meetings between Murdoch and Thatcher at her country residence in Chequers in 1981.

The next time we saw the Bushes was at Chequers a month or so later.

Six regular poachers come daily to The Chequers, but there are many others hanging around who are merely amateurs.

The Romans looked on chequers as barbarous national characteristics, and left them to the Gauls and Britons.

Take him to the Chequers for the night, Daniel, and get another man beside yourself to sit up with him.

You ha' been used to go to the "Chequers" every night for nigh forty years, and you couldn't give it up now.

He rode as jauntily as he could a beautiful Spanish horse, whose barb was of cloth of gold and black satin in chequers.

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