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swatch
[
swoch
]
Origin
swatch
/
swɒtʃ
/
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[
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
(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]
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 10th Edition
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Word Origin & History
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, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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