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Pattern on horse blankets
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tattersall
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A fabric pattern containing squares of dark lines on a light background
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
fabric with small and even check pattern, 1891, so called because it was similar to the traditional design of horse blankets, in reference to Tattersall's , a famous London horse market and gambler's rendezvous, founded 1766 by Richard Tattersall (1724-1795). ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Tattersall describes a check or plaid pattern woven into cloth . The pattern is composed of regularly-spaced thin, even vertical warp stripes, repeated horizontally in the weft , thereby forming squares. The stripes are usually in two alternating colours, ...
Usage examples of tattersall.
He had found one of the great sites of Acheulean tool manufacture that Ian Tattersall had told me about.
Evon saw her there, with the clothespins in her mouth, securing a tattersall shirt or a sheet to the line, standing her ground, asserting her intentions, while the wash gave in and snapped on the wind.
And since at Tattersalls and the Stock Exchange, where men are engaged in perpetual motion, an almost absurd punctiliousness is required in the payment of those sums which have for the moment inadvertently been lost, seventeen hundred and ninety-five of this must infallibly be raised by Monday next.
We're shutting off the whole of this end of the stands, of course, and are having to move everyone and everything along into Tattersalls, but so far I've only managed a promise of a couple of Portakabins for the changing rooms and it looks as if we're going to have to have the scales out in the open air, as they used to do at point-to-points.
He wore a brown tweed suit, and a very clean soft shirt in tattersall check.