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Definition of Chequers
1. chequer [v] - See also: chequer
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chequers
Literary usage of Chequers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Royal Academy of Arts: A Complete Dictionary of Contributors and Their ...by Algernon Graves by Algernon Graves (1906)
"1093 North Lodge, chequers Court, for Sir Robert Frankland Russell, Bart. m1 do.
do. do. ... 1071 The Tudor seat and Plant Cabinet, chequers Court, etc. ..."
2. The Date of the Ruthwell and Bewcastle Crosses by Albert Stanburrough Cook (1912)
"The conclusion of Rivoira has been quoted above (p. 78, note 2), and deserves
peculiar consideration. 2. THE chequers" chequers (Fr. damier ..."
3. The Cambridge, Ely and King's Lynn Road: The Great Fenland Highway by Charles George Harper (1902)
"An indubitable chequers still stands in the village street, but it is not the
house under whose roof the old diarist lay, as the inscription, " WT, Ano Dom. ..."
4. Reminiscences by Battersea (Constance), Constance de Rothschild Flower Battersea (1922)
"CHAPTER VII ASTON CLINTON — COUNTY NEIGHBOURS — HISTORIC HOUSES : STOCKS HARTWELL
DINTON chequers —HAMPDEN HOUSE ASHRIDGE This is the place. ..."
5. Old and New London: A Narrative of Its History, Its People, and Its Places by Walter Thornbury (1893)
"... Fields—Lambeth Wells—Outdoor Diversion in the Olden Time—Taverns and
Public-houses—The " Three Merry Boys "—The " Three Squirrels "—The " chequers''—The ..."
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