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draughtboard
[ draft-bawrd, -bohrd, drahft- ]
draughtboard
/ ˈɑːڳˌɔː /
noun
- a square board divided into 64 squares of alternating colours, used for playing draughts or chess
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of draughtboard1
Example Sentences
Partly as a result of Hitler’s campaigns in the wake of the Great Depression, by the mid-1930s the cosmopolitan Europe that Zweig had known—in the coffee houses of Vienna, the salons of Paris and the cabarets of Berlin—had shrunk into a draughtboard of warring nation-states.
A "Fox and Geese" board, or a draughtboard, will help to pass the time.
There’s something to buy a dress with, and see here, don’t get a draughtboard pattern.
He looks on life as a sort of draughtboard.
Four Berbers at the farther end were playing cards, and two Arabs that were chained to a column near the door squatted on the ground with a battered old draughtboard between them.
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