draughtboard

[ draft-bawrd, -bohrd, drahft- ]

noun

, British.

1. checkerboard ( def 1 ).

draughtboard

/ ˈdrɑːftˌbɔːd /

noun

1. a square board divided into 64 squares of alternating colours, used for playing draughts or chess

Word History and Origins

Origin of draughtboard¹

First recorded in 1720–30; draught + board

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.

From Economist

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

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg

He looks on life as a sort of draughtboard.

From Project Gutenberg

But even the most vacillating man cannot change one fancy for another as he would replace a black piece on the draughtboard with a white one, and he still found it delightful to be so near Barine.

From Project Gutenberg