The Collaborative International Dictionary
Checkerwork \Check"er*work`\ (ch[e^]k"[~e]r*w[^u]rk`), n.
Work consisting of or showing checkers varied alternately as to colors or materials.
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Any aggregate of varied vicissitudes.
How strange a checkerwork of Providence is the life of man.
--De Foe.
Wiktionary
n. 1 Work consisting of or showing checkers, varied alternately by colour or material. 2 (context figuratively English) Any aggregate of varied vicissitudes.
Usage examples of "checkerwork".
Twelve enormous masses of metallic checkerwork, covered with wide cooling fins, almost filled the vast hall.
Little Adele and huge Mira were both up and full, flooding the black-and-white checkerwork marble with pale blue light, turning the giant vases filled with oleander and jessamine and bougainvillea into a pastel wonderland.
The women were dressed in coarse wool garments that hung loose from their shoulders and cloaks in two or three colors of checkerwork on top, and the men .
The walls are nearly all glass in iron frames, and the panes of white glass alternate in checkerwork with those having blue tracery upon them.
He took Broadway, after a while avoiding the checkerwork of pits without even seeing them.
It had been wrapped in tissue and bright ribbon, and inside was a pale-green frock with a checkerwork trim of black velvet.
You muckers, rig a couple of skoufers to throw muck to bury the base and checkerwork up to the hanging wall.