chequerwork

(ˈtʃɛkəˌwɜːk)

any work that resembles a chequerboard in pattern

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In the first of his papers (57) he wrote: 'I obtained transitory glimpses of the Venusian disc parcelled into a chequerwork of tiny areas...

Barker's Circle: a 1930s BAA lunar observing group

The Great Hall was covered in chequerwork paintwork, and the Privy Gallery in black-and-white grotesques, a theme extended into the interior on gilded panelling.

Ten lords a-leaping: at court, the twelve days of Christmas were a time for politics, intrigue and manoeuvre as well as for merry-making. Leanda de Lisle explores the mixed feelings induced in a courtier embroiled in the great affairs of the day, by two very different Christmases, just twelve months apart

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