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chequy

Checky \Check"y\ (ch[e^]k"[y^]), a. (Her.) Divided into small alternating squares of two tinctures; -- said of the field or of an armorial bearing. [Written also checquy, chequy.]

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chequy

a. (context heraldry English) chequered.

Usage examples of "chequy".

For the moment, though, the tangled underbrush along the Chequy Water was still thick with thorny vines, nettles, and tangles of briarwhite and young willow.

Egg bore the Osgrey banner, the chequy lion green and gold, rampant upon its field of white.

On front and back it bore the chequy lion, sewn in little squares of green and gold.

She took his life, and now she thinks to take our water, too, the Chequy Water that nourishes our crops .

There were more red deer than any man could take in a lifetime, for none but the king and the chequy lion were allowed to hunt here.

The boy looked as cool and crisp in his chequy tunic as Ser Eustace had in his cloak.

This Chequy Water rises in the Horseshoe Hills, which were wholly mine when last I looked.

For his leal service in the late rebellion, Lord Wyman and his descendants were granted all rights to the Chequy Water, from where it rises in the Horseshoe Hills to the shores of Leafy Lake.

That would have been a death worthy of a chequy lion descended from so many proud lords and mighty warriors.

The last thing he wanted this morning was another confrontation with the chequy lion.

A few green trees still stood where the west way crossed the Chequy Water.

A column of mounted crossbowmen brought up the rear, and fanned out to either side of the road when they reached the Chequy Water and saw Dunk waiting on the other side.

An onyx spider squatted malignantly atop his helmet, but his shield displayed his own arms: a bend sinister, chequy black and white, on a pale gray field.

Eustace Osgrey is the lord of Coldmoat, and his chequy lion flies beside the Webber spider on every tower and wall.

Customs officers from the Chequy Port would buy from her, and paddlers from the Drowned Town, whose sunken domes and towers poked up from the green waters of the lagoon.