chequering

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of chequer

comparative more chequering · superlative most chequering

1. That chequers something in pattern.

   […] Above, the azure sky was glowing, Beneath, the flood, like silver flowing, Around in chequering light and shade, Her hues delighted Spring display'd; […]

   1827, Lydia Sigourney, Poems, On the Loss of the Steamboat Ætna, page 97

plural chequerings

1. A chequered pattern.

   What awful perspective! while from our sight / With gradual stealth the lateral windows hide / Their Portraitures, their stone-work glimmers, dyed / In the soft chequerings of a sleepy light.

   1821, William Wordsworth, Inside of King's College Chapel, Cambridge (The Same)