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Chequering

adj, noun, verb

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Adjective
  1. 1
    That chequers something in pattern.

    "[…] Above, the azure sky was glowing, Beneath, the flood, like silver flowing, Around in chequering light and shade, Her hues delighted Spring display'd; […]"

Noun
  1. 1
    A chequered pattern.

    "What awful perspective! while from our sight / With gradual stealth the lateral windows hide / Their Portraitures, their stone-work glimmers, dyed / In the soft chequerings of a sleepy light."

Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of chequer form-of, gerund, participle, present

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