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swatch

[swoch] Origin

swatch

[swoch]
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 is always a great word to know.
So is flibbertigibbet. Does it mean:
a chattering or flighty, light-headed person.
a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
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swatch (swɒtʃ)
 
n
1.  a sample of cloth
2.  a number of such samples, usually fastened together in book form
3.  printing
 a.  a small sample of colour supplied to the printer for matching during printing
 b.  a sample of ink spread on paper by a printer to check the accuracy of a required colour
 
[C16: Scottish and northern English, of uncertain origin]

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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.
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