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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

(Her.)

Same as

Or, a fess chequy of three traits gules and argent.

chequy ‎(not comparable)

(heraldry) Chequered.
- 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, p. 821:
  Sometimes the Princess was seen conferring spiritedly with the Spongiatosta security details posted about the streets nearby, whose livery bore the ancient family arms, a sponge couchant on a field chequy with flames at the foot.