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ˈchequer-work, ˈchecker work
1. Work arranged after the pattern of a chessboard; work chequered in pattern. Also attrib.
1519W. Horman Vulg. xxix. 242 The rofe shalbe celed vaut⁓wyse, & with cheker work. 1610Holland Camden's Brit. i. 366 The Romane coines, the checkerworke pavements. 1701Lond. Gaz. No. 3754/8 A Stuff Gown of Red and Blue Chequer-work. 1824Miss Mitford Village Ser. iii. (1863) 459 My letter, first written horizontally..then perpendicularly to form a sort of chequer-work.
2. transf. and fig. Anything chequered or diversified with contrasting characters.
1618T. Adams Serm. 14 Now joy with sorrow, checker-worke. 1653Gauden Hierasp. 8 A Checquer-work of Arguments and Oratory. 1654Trapp Comm. Ps. lx. 10 The Churches prosperity, like checker-work, is intermingled with adversity. 1719De Foe Crusoe i. xi. 184 How strange a Chequer-Work of Providence is the Life of Man! 1797Mrs. Radcliffe Italian xvii, One of the most striking examples which the chequer-work of life could show. |