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The floor was a metal chequerboard of those two hues.

Aircraft of the group were identified by a red/white chequerboard pattern.

They crossed a wide beach, a chequerboard of fields, and a forest.

A chequerboard of ceiling panels was beginning to glow with a greenish light.

Stick the remaining two strips together with icing and place them on top to create a chequerboard effect.

The rim of the medal is a chequerboard pattern, which symbolises police forces across the world.

The worshippers headed off in their own directions, and the ordered chequerboard shattered.

"Those black-and-white wings of ours make this squadron stand out like a chequerboard.

Keep stepping lightly as the squares on the chequerboard shift beneath your feet."

The land was a chequerboard of cultivation.

Trim a slim slice from each end of the cake to neaten and show off the chequerboard effect.

Official taxis - recognisable by their chequerboard logo on the side and/or a small green light in the windscreen - charge about the same.

Quarter marks may be applied to the haunches of the horse, often in a chequerboard or triangular pattern.

The interior is decorated with red and white sandstone with a chequerboard pattern added in the upper portion.

There is a black and white square known as the Chequerboard, close to the Sea Spray Restaurant.

Spaced every mile or so on the chequerboard of fields was a village, and spaced rather further apart were the towns.

The tower stands on a plinth, above which is a band of stone and flint flushwork in a chequerboard pattern.

Its external walls are of a decorative chequerboard pattern of flint and freestone squares.

The church, which was built in a chequerboard pattern of flint and stone, sits on a hill overlooking the River Wylye.

The fields were a chequerboard of shades, interspersed with large patches of broad-leaved woodland.

The inlaid chequerboard top of the coffee table houses all kind of games, including backgammon, chess and Scrabble.

The entrance hall features a chequerboard floor that Allison painted freehand when the couple's first daughter, Mabel, was a month old.

The tower is set on a plinth with a frieze decorated in a chequerboard pattern in brick and stone.

The Norbury chapel on the north side is late Perpendicular, with chequerboard flint and clunch walling.

The walls of the nave and chancel have a chequerboard pattern of flint and sandstone.

The flower has a chequered pattern in shades of purple, or is sometimes pure white.

The apron was often of natural colours (white through cream and grey to black) in chequered patterns.

The street grid shows a chequered pattern that was typical of that time.

The floor is constructed from light and dark grey marble slabs in a chequered pattern.

The away kit is all black with the same chequered pattern on the sides as the home kit.

The bottle that contained element A was painted in a black-and-white chequered pattern with three red rings around the middle.

Other platforms are believed to have been cattle kraals and a retaining wall with a chequered pattern.

The earliest had either plaited or chequered pattern, with narrow strips sewn together.

Women's sarongs most often have an embroidered border at the hem, while men's are in a chequered pattern.

The mud was cracked in an irregular chequered pattern forming small brickettes, each the size of a hand.

Check, a chequered pattern or design.

When divided by palewise and fesswise lines into a chequered pattern, the field is chequy.

In Chamba district, weaving assumes a chequered pattern.

The board was finely made, with a chequered pattern of pale and dark wood and bronze bindings at the corners.

But the lesson was not learned, and the chequered pattern of independence and ingratitude was repeated.

Soon after this they changed their strip to the once famous blue and white chequered pattern for which they were known for close to a century.

The chequered subspecies have these chequered patterns on the bottom side, on the head, the upper parts of the back and the wings.

He wore a similar sort of jumper to Roger the Dodger, albeit it is a diamond pattern rather than chequered pattern.

A checkerboard or chequerboard (see spelling differences) is a board of chequered pattern on which English draughts (checkers) is played.

The church was built according to the opus mixtum technique using interchanging straight rows of brickwork and stones arranged in a chequered pattern.

The faint chequered pattern on both the upperside and underside help to distinguish the Large Skipper from these two orange Skippers.

The fourth quarter contained a gold and blue chequered pattern, the arms of the de Warennes, Earls of Surrey.

The name Fritillaria comes from the latin fritillus meaning dice-box, possibly referring to the chequered pattern on the flowers although this derivation has been disputed.

It is easy to distinguish the taxi from the simple car as the taxi cars are always either red or green or yellow and with a chequered pattern.

Fritillaria roylei is a herbaceous plant, with yellowish-green to brownish-purple flowers which are usually with a chequered pattern in dull purple.