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Definition of Chessboards
1. chessboard [n] - See also: chessboard
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chessboards
Literary usage of Chessboards
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of the County of Mayo to the Close of the Sixteenth Century by Hubert Thomas Knox (1908)
"... 10 drinking-horns, 10 steeds, 2 rings, 2 chessboards. 6. Ui Maine : 7 cloaks,
7 horses, ... 5 swords, 10 drinking-horns, 10 bondsmen, 10 chessboards. 9. ..."
2. Publications by Oriental Translation Fund (1897)
"... the only feet ever cut off are those in metre; only chessboards teach the
positions of the four ' members4,' there is no cutting off the four principal ..."
3. The Geographical Journal by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain). (1897)
"... up like irregular chessboards into detached areas subject ta the jurisdiction
of Prussia, of Brunswick, or of both conjointly. Holland—Waterways. ..."
4. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Edward Cornelius Towne (1897)
"Then the carpet being spread, they brought great store of cards, dice, and
chessboards. After having well played, reveled, passed and spent his time, ..."
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