CHEQUERED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does chequered mean? 

• CHEQUERED (adjective)
  The adjective CHEQUERED has 1 sense:

1. patterned with alternating squares of color

  Familiarity information: CHEQUERED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CHEQUERED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Patterned with alternating squares of color

Synonyms:

checked; checkered; chequered

Similar:

patterned (having patterns (especially colorful patterns))

 Context examples 

Such is the Bench in my chequered career.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Her happiness on this occasion was very much a la mortal, finely chequered.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

The western end was already steeped in moonshine; the rest, and the block house itself, still lay in a black shadow chequered with long silvery streaks of light.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

He had since heard her express herself differently, with other feelings, more chequered feelings: he had heard her tell Mrs. Grant that she should leave her with regret; that she began to believe neither the friends nor the pleasures she was going to were worth those she left behind; and that though she felt she must go, and knew she should enjoy herself when once away, she was already looking forward to being at Mansfield again.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

I learnt, from this, that Miss Mills had had her trials in the course of a chequered existence; and that to these, perhaps, I might refer that wise benignity of manner which I had already noticed.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)