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n. (plural of chequer English)
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Chequers, or Chequers Court, is the country house retreat of the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. The residence is located near Ellesborough, to the south of Aylesbury in Buckinghamshire, England, at the foot of the Chiltern Hills. It is approximately 65 kilometers (40 miles) WNW by road from central London. Coombe Hill, once part of the estate, can be seen just behind. It has been the private retreat of the Prime Minister since 1921.
Usage examples of "chequers".
It will be seen that the pieces A and C have each twenty chequers, and are therefore of equal area.
It will be seen that the piece D contains fifty-two chequers, and this is the largest piece that it is possible to preserve under the conditions.
Solely within the walls of the Chequers lay his world, that inn having been acquired by his great-grandfather as far back as the year 1667, when the jovial Stuart King sat on the English throne, and the Hanoverian Electors were not yet dreamed of.
And if, when sundry Whig gentlemen halted at the Chequers on their way to the coast, and, calling for a bottle of Rhenish, bade him toss down a glass himself with a health to his Majesty, again who shall blame Mr.
Mine host of the Chequers was a great personage in the town, being able both to read and to write, and having once, when young, travelled as far north as London town, staying there for ten days and setting eyes on no less a person than the great Duke of Marlborough himself when that gentleman was riding along the Strand on his way to St.
Warburton stayed the night at the Chequers and travelled back to Wyncham next day by the two o'clock coach.
He was preparing to leave by car for Chequers, the 700-acre official residence of British Prime Ministers in Buckinghamshire.
Now, on this March 30, as he began the 60-odd-mile drive to Chequers, he pondered Eisenhower’s answer with profound concern.
A couple of bridges on roads leading to army camps had been blown up, certain airfields sabotaged (the runways mined), two commercial radio stations in the London area taken over, and he had flown five hundred Tac Force men to Chequers at the request of the Ministry of Defence.
At Chequers, the country residence of the Prime Ministers of Great Britain, set amid twelve hundred rolling acres of Buckinghamshire, Mrs.
That Sunday, the twenty-second, the British Prime Minis-ter spent at her official country residence, Chequers, in the county of Buckinghamshire.
Well, the day before the fair, as we were busy in the forenoon getting the timber out of the vessel, one of my shipmates, who went to the same house, says to me, 'I say, Tom, when I was at the Chequers last night, I overheard Peggy promise to go to the Ryde Fair with that Frenchified smuggling chap.
The yard-method of attack having been successful at The Chequers was tried again here.