chequering
English edit
Verb edit
chequering
- present participle and gerund of chequer
Adjective edit
chequering (comparative more chequering, superlative most chequering)
- 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 edit
chequering (plural chequerings)
- 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.