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swatch

  [swoch] ,
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–noun
1. a sample of cloth or other material.
2. a sample, patch, or characteristic specimen of anything.
Origin:
1505–15; akin to switch
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swatch   (swŏch)   
n.  
  1. A sample strip cut from a piece of material.
  2. A representative portion; a sample: quoted swatches of the speech in his article.
  3. A strip or swath of land: "I . . . drove through this hilly swatch of field and forest that wraps around the east and north of town" (Jean Anderson).

[Origin unknown.]
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Swatch

Swatch\, n. 1. A swath. [Obs.] --Tusser.

2. A piece, pattern, or sample, generally of cloth. --Halliwell. Jamieson.
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swatch 
1512, "the countercheck of a tally" (Northumberland dialect), later "a tally attached to cloth sent to be dyed" (1612, in Yorkshire), of unknown origin. Meaning "a sample piece of cloth" is from 1647.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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