Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The board on which the game of draughts or checkers is played; a checker-board.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A checkered board on which draughts are played. See
checkerboard .
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- noun
checkerboard
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Examples
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Four Berbers at the farther end were playing cards, and two Arabs that were chained to a column near the door squatted on the ground with a battered old draughtboard between them.
The Scapegoat; a romance and a parable Hall Caine 1892
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But even the most vacillating man cannot change one fancy for another as he would replace a black piece on the draughtboard with a white one, and he still found it delightful to be so near Barine.
Cleopatra — Volume 01 Georg Ebers 1867
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But even the most vacillating man cannot change one fancy for another as he would replace a black piece on the draughtboard with a white one, and he still found it delightful to be so near Barine.
Cleopatra — Volume 01 Georg Ebers 1867
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But even the most vacillating man cannot change one fancy for another as he would replace a black piece on the draughtboard with a white one, and he still found it delightful to be so near Barine.
Cleopatra — Volume 01 Georg Ebers 1867
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But even the most vacillating man cannot change one fancy for another as he would replace a black piece on the draughtboard with a white one, and he still found it delightful to be so near Barine.
Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works Georg Ebers 1867
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But even the most vacillating man cannot change one fancy for another as he would replace a black piece on the draughtboard with a white one, and he still found it delightful to be so near Barine.
Cleopatra — Complete Georg Ebers 1867
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"There's something to buy a dress with, and see here, don't get a draughtboard pattern.
Colorado Jim George Goodchild
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