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Checkerwork   Listen
noun
Checkerwork  n.  
1.
Work consisting of or showing checkers varied alternately as to colors or materials.
2.
Any aggregate of varied vicissitudes. "How strange a checkerwork of Providence is the life of man."





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"Checkerwork" Quotes from Famous Books



... it merely this feeling of romance which binds us to the law book of the Crusaders. It has important political and judicial significance. In the kingdom of Godfrey of Boulogne lived mixed up together, formed into a kind of variegated checkerwork, people of all lands and languages of the Occident—French, Italians, Spanish, English, and Germans. The system of law which united this mixed multitude was indeed the German, at least in its fundamental and leading forms and features, as this was before the time ...
— The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 5, November, 1863 • Various
... are recognized by the Tinguian, but they are really variations of two—checkerwork ...
— The Tinguian - Social, Religious, and Economic Life of a Philippine Tribe • Fay-Cooper Cole


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