hound's-tooth
[houndz-tooth]
- woven or printed with a pattern of broken or jagged checks: a hound's-tooth jacket.
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Origin of hound's-tooth
First recorded in 1955–60
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Contemporary Examples of houndstooth
The real Chloë is notorious for wearing beige and houndstooth and orange, matte lipstick, and sarcastic chunk wedges.
Word Origin and History for houndstooth
also hound's tooth, as a design pattern, 1936, so called for resemblance.
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