hound's tooth
noun
a pattern of broken or jagged checks, used on a variety of fabrics.
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hound's-toothadjectivewoven or printed with a pattern of broken or jagged checks.
hound's tooth
1 Americannoun
hound's-tooth
2
American
[haundz-tooth]
/ ˈhaʊndzˌtuθ /
adjective
Etymology
Origin of hound's tooth1
First recorded in 1935–40
Origin of hound's-tooth2
First recorded in 1955–60
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To earn it the investigators must appear every day to be clean as a hound’s tooth.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 15, 2017
Preferring hound's tooth jackets and mixed tweeds to ambassadorial tails, he would sooner talk on Scottish wild flowers and Chinese porcelains than on politics and policies.
From Time Magazine Archive
Harding asked for time to think, ten minutes later announced that he was as clean as a hound's tooth.
From Time Magazine Archive
Said one retail store manager: "Our stocks are as clean as a hound's tooth."
From Time Magazine Archive
As clean as a hound's tooth, and not a lost motion of a feather.
From The Golf Course Mystery by Chester K. Steele
Agee saw an “arrogant neophyte” and a film that had been constructed around her as snugly as the form-fitting hound’s-tooth suit she wears so well.
From New York Times ● Aug. 13, 2014
An evangelist's accounting Billy Graham has always endeavored to be hound's-tooth clean about money.
From Time Magazine Archive
"It's inevitable," said a tall Tanganyikan in hound's-tooth tweeds.
From Time Magazine Archive
Delaware's hound's-tooth polisher, Republican John J. Williams, led a parade of five Republican Senators provisionally suggesting an Adams resignation.
From Time Magazine Archive
All he did was thank me for letting him wear my hound's-tooth.
From "The Catcher in the Rye" by J. D. Salinger
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