checkerboard

checkerboard
/chek"euhr bawrd', -bohrd'/, n.
1. a board marked off into 64 squares of two alternating colors, arranged in eight vertical and eight horizontal rows, on which checkers or chess is played.
2. a design resembling this: The garden was laid out in a checkerboard.
v.t.
3. to arrange in or mark with a checkerboard pattern: a wall checkerboarded with black and white tiles. Also called, Brit., draughtboard (for def. 1).
[1765-75; CHECKER1 + BOARD]

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