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- noun Plural form of
chessman .
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Examples
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But the British Museum is refusing to back down and insists the chessmen are the highlight within the new Paul and Jill Ruddock Gallery of Medieval Europe.
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Stevenson, too, tends to run his characters into symbols -- his moralist-fabulist determinations are too much for him -- he would translate them into a kind of chessmen, moved or moving on
Robert Louis Stevenson: a record, an estimate, and a memorial 1871
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The chessmen are the better for that; her Maltese dog would have broken them all the first time it upset their table! "
Under Two Flags 1839-1908 Ouida 1873
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Z lays the chessmen to sleep in one of his four big tin boxes, now empty of their original Altoids.
Camo Girl Kekla magoon 2011
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He says nothing but reaches in and extracts the box of chessmen.
Camo Girl Kekla magoon 2011
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Cragg makes extraordinarily energetic, spiralling, skewed forms, like melted chessmen.
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The Kings are Hitler and Roosevelt, complete with military personnel, figures of the capitals and tanks as the strong chessmen also fighting to protect.
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He says nothing but reaches in and extracts the box of chessmen.
Camo Girl Kekla magoon 2011
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I walk away, leaving him to his boxes, chessmen, and tires.
Camo Girl Kekla magoon 2011
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Z lays the chessmen to sleep in one of his four big tin boxes, now empty of their original Altoids.
Camo Girl Kekla magoon 2011
seanahan commented on the word chessmen
Another term for chess pieces.
February 21, 2007