Definitions
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- noun The
board on whichdraughts is played, resembling achessboard but (depending on the game variation) often having aside length of tensquares rather than eight.
Etymologies
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draughts + board
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Examples
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Its dingy white sign bore two holes that had renamed the establishment Can bury Hot, and its draughtsboard marble porch gaped with missing pieces.
With No One as Witness George, Elizabeth 2005
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The Strongs had opted for a draughtsboard pattern of large tiles on the ground, and they'd covered them with an array of pot plants that someone had SIZ muaotin been tending with devotion.
With No One as Witness George, Elizabeth 2005
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