hound's-tooth

[houndz-tooth]

adjective

woven or printed with a pattern of broken or jagged checks: a hound's-tooth jacket.

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.
Becoming Chloë Sevigny
Drew Droege
August 18, 2011

Word Origin and History for houndstooth

also hound's tooth, as a design pattern, 1936, so called for resemblance.

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