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chessmen

[ches-man, -muhn]

chess·man

[ches-man, -muhn]
noun, plural -men [-men, -muhn] .
any piece used in the game of chess.

Origin:
1275–1325; Middle English; earlier chesse meyne, equivalent to chesse chess1 + meyne household (man, men by folk etymology) < Middle French mesniée < Latin mansiōn- (stem of mansiō); see mansion
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