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Chess board   /tʃɛs bɔrd/   Listen
Chess board

noun
1.
A checkerboard used to play chess.  Synonym: chessboard.






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"Chess board" Quotes from Famous Books



... to the table and arranged the chess board. Zack stood waiting for the goblets, having no intention to leave these treacherous exhibits again at large should a spirit of fatigue overtake the players. So there was a prolonged pause while the men fortified themselves for the coming fray, and when the Colonel noisily sucked the very ...
— Sunlight Patch • Credo Fitch Harris

... and living waters and fish ponds and plough lands, and many ships were in its haven, for that castle stood above the sea. It was well fenced against all assault or engines of war, and its keep, which the giants had built long ago, was compact of great stones, like a chess board of vert and azure. ...
— The Romance Of Tristan And Iseult • M. Joseph Bedier

... Along the two opposite walls there were narrow carpets spread on the floor, covered with cushions and low stools. Before every occupant there was an oblong on the bare floor, traced also with chalk, and divided, like a chess board, into small quadrangles which were destined for dishes and plates. Both the latter articles were made of the thick strong leaves of the butea frondosa: larger dishes of several leaves pinned together with thorns, plates and saucers of one leaf with its borders turned up. All the ...
— From the Caves and Jungles of Hindostan • Helena Pretrovna Blavatsky



Words linked to "Chess board" :   chessboard, checkerboard, checker board, chess set



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