draughtboard

American  

[draft-bawrd, -bohrd, drahft-] / ˈdræftˌbɔrd, -ˌboʊrd, ˈdrɑft- /

Also draughtsboard

noun

British.

1. checkerboard.

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draughtboard British  

/ ˈdrɑːftˌbɔːd /

noun

1. a square board divided into 64 squares of alternating colours, used for playing draughts or chess

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Etymology

Origin of draughtboard

First recorded in 1720–30; draught + board

Example Sentences

Partly as a result of Hitler’s campaigns in the wake of the Great Depression, by the mid-1930s the cosmopolitan Europe that Zweig had known—in the coffee houses of Vienna, the salons of Paris and the cabarets of Berlin—had shrunk into a draughtboard of warring nation-states.

From Economist

A "Fox and Geese" board, or a draughtboard, will help to pass the time.

From Project Gutenberg

There’s something to buy a dress with, and see here, don’t get a draughtboard pattern.

From Project Gutenberg

He looks on life as a sort of draughtboard.

From Project Gutenberg

Four Berbers at the farther end were playing cards, and two Arabs that were chained to a column near the door squatted on the ground with a battered old draughtboard between them.

From Project Gutenberg