chequering

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English

Verb

chequering

  1. present participle and gerund of chequer

Adjective

chequering (comparative more chequering, superlative most chequering)

  1. That chequers something in pattern.
    • 1827, Lydia Sigourney, Poems, On the Loss of the Steamboat Ætna, page 97:
      [] Above, the azure sky was glowing,
      Beneath, the flood, like silver flowing,
      Around in chequering light and shade,
      Her hues delighted Spring display'd; []

Noun

chequering (plural chequerings)

  1. A chequered pattern.
    • 1821, William Wordsworth, Inside of King's College Chapel, Cambridge (The Same):
      What awful perspective! while from our sight / With gradual stealth the lateral windows hide / Their Portraitures, their stone-work glimmers, dyed / In the soft chequerings of a sleepy light.