Definitions for chequy

chequy chequ·y

Spelling: [chek-ee]
IPA: /ˈtʃɛk i/

Chequy is a 6 letter English word.

You can make 41 anagrams from letters in chequy (cehquy).

Definitions for chequy

adjective

  1. checky.
  2. divided into several rows of squares of two alternating tinctures:

Origin of chequy

1400-50; late Middle English cheke(e) Middle French escheque checked, chequered in pattern, past participle of eschequer, derivative of eschec

Examples for chequy

The shield used by the town of Halifax has the canting "Holy Face" upon a chequy field.

Only the eldest sons bore the Chevron chequy, the rest of the family bore the Beauchamp crosses crosslet.

It gives the coat of arms as, chequy or and azure, a chevron ermine.

Whereas the old earles of Warwicke bare chequy or and azure, a cheueron ermin, many thereabout tooke ermine and chequy.

The mantling of the Princes and Dukes of Mirandola was chequy argent and azure, lined with ermine.

The antient Earls of Warren and Surrey bore ‘chequy, or and azure.’

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