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check⋅y

[chek-ee]
–adjective Heraldry.
divided into several rows of squares of two alternating tinctures: a fess checky, or and azure.
Also, chequy.


Origin:
1400–50; late ME cheke(e) < MF escheque checked, chequered in pattern, ptp. of eschequer, deriv. of eschec check 1
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