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 of swatch

1
First recorded in 1505–15; akin to switch

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How to use swatch in a sentence

  • To prevent any mistakes, it is well to mark the swatches with one, two, three or more cuts as may be required.

  • Lester closed the book of sample swatches and sat down suddenly.

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British Dictionary definitions for swatch

swatch

/ (swɒtʃ) /


noun
  1. a sample of cloth

  2. a number of such samples, usually fastened together in book form

  1. printing

    • a small sample of colour supplied to the printer for matching during printing

    • a sample of ink spread on paper by a printer to check the accuracy of a required colour

Origin of swatch

1
C16: Scottish and northern English, of uncertain origin

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