chequy
adj/ˈt͡ʃɛki/
Etymology From Anglo-Norman escheké, eschequé (“chequered”), from eschec (“chess, check”). Influenced by chequ(er) + -y and check.
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Government, Heraldry, Hobbies, Lifestyle, Monarchy, Nobility, Politics Chequered; divided into small squares (chequers) by transverse vertical and horizontal lines.
- Sometimes the Princess was seen conferring spiritedly with the Spongiatosta security details posted about the streets nearby, whose livery bore the ancient family arms, a sponge couchant on a field chequy with flames at the foot.2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 821: