checkerboard
Noun
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Noun
checkerboard (plural checkerboards)
- A pattern of squares of alternating colours.
- A board, usually square, covered with such a pattern; especially such a board with 8×8 squares, used to play chess and draughts/checkers.
- (board for draughts) draughtboard
- Italian: scacchiera
- Spanish: escaque
- French: damier
- Italian: scacchiera
- Portuguese: tabuleiro
- Russian: ша́хматная доска́
- Spanish: tablero, tablero de damas, damero
checkerboard (checkerboards, present participle checkerboarding; past and past participle checkerboarded)
- (transitive) To checker; to mark with an alternating pattern of light and dark.
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