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swatch

[ swoch ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

swatch

/ swɒtʃ /

a sample of cloth
a number of such samples, usually fastened together in book form
printing
1. a small sample of colour supplied to the printer for matching during printing
2. a sample of ink spread on paper by a printer to check the accuracy of a required colour

Origin of swatch¹

First recorded in 1505–15; akin to switch

Origin of swatch¹

C16: Scottish and northern English, of uncertain origin

To wipe them and swap in a white swatch, add “AdBlock,” which removes ads from all the websites you frequent.

The swatch itself comes to the Met from the Vatican, where it seems to have landed 1,200 or more years ago.

Then he took a swatch of black velveteen from his pocket and arranged it over the sample-table with the two gems in its folds.

When all is ready, the bath is heated up, the swatch entered, and the work of the test entered upon.

For at the last moment she slipped to the wings, dropping the last swatch of lace to slide down one long, white, out-thrust leg.

Another swatch too exists, opposite the East Goodwin buoy, being that in which we struck the dangerous bottom.

It appeared to Archie that to swatch with the barrel man must be a highly diverting occupation.

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