Definition of "chequering"

chequering

verb
1. present participle and gerund of chequer
adjective
comparative more chequering, superlative most chequering
1. That chequers something in pattern.
  Quotations
  […] Above, the azure sky was glowing,Beneath, the flood, like silver flowing,Around in chequering light and shade,Her hues delighted Spring display'd; […]
  1827, Lydia Sigourney, Poems, On the Loss of the Steamboat Ætna, page 97
noun
plural chequerings
1. A chequered pattern.
  Quotations
  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.
  1821, William Wordsworth, Inside of King's College Chapel, Cambridge (The Same)

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