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draughtboard

[ draft-bawrd, -bohrd, drahft- ]

draughtboard

/ ˈɑːڳˌɔː /

noun

  1. a square board divided into 64 squares of alternating colours, used for playing draughts or chess
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of draughtboard1

First recorded in 1720–30; draught + board
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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.

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A "Fox and Geese" board, or a draughtboard, will help to pass the time.

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There’s something to buy a dress with, and see here, don’t get a draughtboard pattern.

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He looks on life as a sort of draughtboard.

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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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