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  • noun A fabric pattern of broken checks

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Examples

  • It's really the only reason to watch an Alabama football game: Co-eds in houndstooth hats ... 'nuff said.

    Bear with Me 2006

  • Bryant Museum, called houndstooth "the third color" of Alabama, along with the crimson and white of the uniforms.

    NYT > Home Page By MARQUAVIUS BURNETT 2011

  • For fall, designers will fill the stores with traditional menswear patterns such as houndstooth, tweed and herringbone.

    'Dowdy' Talbots Hopes 2008

  • It was gray, a kind of houndstooth tweedy sort of gray, and loose, almost over-sized, and quite comfortable and warm, and I was happy and my dad was happy.

    Archive 2007-01-01 Becca 2007

  • It was gray, a kind of houndstooth tweedy sort of gray, and loose, almost over-sized, and quite comfortable and warm, and I was happy and my dad was happy.

    Coats Becca 2007

  • But then I got sidetracked and bought some houndstooth which isn't solid colour and here I am again.

    And, shoes. - A Dress A Day 2006

  • Kors called his collection, filled with his favorite colors - black, white, red and canary yellow - and heavy on graphic prints such as houndstooth and stripes, "exhilarating."

    The News Tribune - Tacoma - - HOMEPAGE 2010

  • Kors called his collection, filled with his favorite colors - black, white, red and canary yellow - and heavy on graphic prints such as houndstooth and stripes, "exhilarating."

    The News Tribune - Tacoma - - HOMEPAGE 2010

  • Kors called his collection, filled with his favorite colors - black, white, red and canary yellow - and heavy on graphic prints such as houndstooth and stripes, "exhilarating."

    The News Tribune - Tacoma - - HOMEPAGE newstips@thenewstribune.com (Mary Ann Albright; Th 2010

  • Kors called his collection, filled with his favorite colors - black, white, red and canary yellow - and heavy on graphic prints such as houndstooth and stripes, "exhilarating."

    The News Tribune - Tacoma - - HOMEPAGE 2010

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