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chess·board (c̸hes′bôrd′)

noun

a square board with 64 squares of two alternating colors, used in chess and checkers

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chessboard Usage Examples

Possessives

  • castle: Join him at the castle's giant chessboard for a talk about the games.

Converse of object

  • see: I believe this mistake was caused by the actor not being able to see the chessboard through his helmet.

Adjective modifier

  • giant: Join him at the castle's giant chessboard for a talk about the games.

Modifies a noun

  • pattern: Rita paints the potted shrubs while I go up a ladder and extend the chessboard pattern to the distant mountains.
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The underlying motive of many Socialists is, I believe, a hypertrophied sense of order†what they desire, basically, istoreducetheworld tosomething resembling a chessboard.

-Orwell, George pseudonym of  Eric Arthur Blair

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