Having the surface or ground diversified and adorned with a diaper or fret-work pattern.

transferred and figurative in various senses.

Chequered, checky.

Marked with lines crossing at right angles; variegated with different colours in squares or other geometrical figures; chequered.

attributive. Having a pattern of this kind, diapered; as diaper-work, diaper-pattern, diaper-couching.

Marked like a chessboard; hence, having a pattern of various colours in more or less geometrical arrangement.

Ornamented with lozenges of alternate colours; divided into lozenges or lozenge-shaped spaces.

Of the nature of diaper or diaper-work; chequered with various colouring.

Of a ceiling: = fretted, adj.2

transferred. Composed of or divided into lozenges.

Architecture. Of or relating to the construction of a wall, brickwork, etc., using polygonal stones, or square stones set diagonally. Of a wall…

Of a design: characterized by or decorated with regular shapes or patterns.

Architecture. = reticulated, adj. 2a. Obsolete.

= geometrical, adj. 1b.

The letter considered with respect to its shape; a figure or object of this shape. Also attributive, as Z-bar n. a metal bar having a…

attributive. Also as adj., resembling a chessboard; like that of a chessboard.