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
[houndz-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
A "sense of Congress" resolution with no legal force, the code urges officials to be loyal, hardworking, fair, clean as a hound's tooth.
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
His features were classically regular; he stood six feet six; he was lean because fit, sound as a hound's tooth, and really a superb specimen of masculine health.
From Police!!! by Henry Hutt
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
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
"It's inevitable," said a tall Tanganyikan in hound's-tooth tweeds.
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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