chessman
Americannoun
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chessmen
plural
noun
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Etymology
Origin of chessman
1275–1325; Middle English; earlier chesse meyne, equivalent to chesse chess 1 + meyne household ( man, men by folk etymology) < Middle French mesniée < Latin mansiōn- (stem of mansiō ); see mansion
Example Sentences
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Zhang Jun, suggested that the United States may see the Korean issue as "a chessman on the chessboard for their so-called Indo-Pacific strategy."
From Reuters ● May 27, 2022
Logan is not somebody who is easily discombobulated, so Cory, as a master chessman, I’m sure would have a 13-point movement that gets him close enough to just get a smile from Logan.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2021
The third chessman to be moved, last week, is also a "sound lawyer" and has been Solicitor General since 1924.
From Time Magazine Archive
Richard Reti, 40, of Prague, Czechoslovakia, famed chessman; in Prague.
From Time Magazine Archive
Mark never forgot the picture of the Bishop lying there under a chequered coverlet looking like an old ivory chessman, a white bishop that had been taken in the game and put off the board.
From The Altar Steps by MacKenzie, Compton
The front hall is surveyed by a row of British Museum reproductions of the Lewis chessmen, souvenirs of the Le Guins’ two sabbatical years in London, when their three children were small.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 10, 2016
I had more confidence in a larger structure once I could use real people—not as characters but as chessmen.
From Slate ● Sep. 7, 2016
Today, Staunton Pattern chessmen are the only style sanctioned for competitive play.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2015
Loans from Britain include some of the famous Lewis chessmen carved as fierce Viking warriors, biting on the edge of their shields in an ecstasy of rage.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 19, 2013
He began to gather the chessmen and set them back into their box.
From "The Haunting of Hill House" by Shirley Jackson
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