Crossword clues for tattersall
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). The surname is from the place in Lincolnshire, which is said to represent "Tathere's nook," "probably in the sense 'nook of dry ground in marsh'." [Cambridge Dictionary of English Place-Names]
Wiktionary
n. A fabric pattern containing squares of dark lines on a light background
Wikipedia
Tattersall may refer to:
People- Alfred John Tattersall (1861–1951), New Zealand photographer
- David Tattersall, British cinematographer
- Gale Tattersall (born 1948), British-American film maker and cinematographer
- Geoffrey Tattersall, judge on the Isle of Man
- Geoffry Tattersall (1882–1972), English cricketer
- George Tattersall (1817–1849), English sporting artist
- Ian Tattersall, American paleoanthropologist and curator
- John Lincoln Tattersall (1865–1942), English cotton merchant
- Mark Tattersall (born c. 1984), British journalist
- Philippa Tattersall (born 1975), Royal Marine officer
- Richard Tattersall (1724–1795), founder of racehorse auctioneer Tattersalls
- Roy Tattersall (1922–2011), English cricketer
- Thomas Tattersall (c. 1874–1905), English murderer
- Wally Tattersall (1888–1968), English football player
- Walter Medley Tattersall (1882–1943), English zoologist and marine biologist
- William Tattersall, English football player
- Zoe Tattersall, fictional character in the soap opera Coronation Street
- City Tattersalls Club, a social club in Sydney, Australia
- Somerville Tattersall Stakes, a horse race in England
- Tattersall (cloth), a checked pattern woven into cloth
- Tattersall Farm, in Haverhill, Massachusetts
- Tattersall Farm, in Lancashire, England
- Tattersalls Gold Cup, a horse race in Ireland
- Tattersall Golf Club in Pennsylvania, now known as Broad Run Golfer's Club
- Tattersalls Park, a racecourse in Tasmania
- Tattersalls, an English auctioneer of race horses
- Tattersall's Limited, an Australian gambling company (1895-2005) now Tatts Group
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, generally darker on a light ground. The cloth pattern takes its name from Tattersall's horse market, which was started in London in 1766. During the 18th century at Tattersall's horse market blankets with this checked pattern were sold for use on horses.
Today tattersall is a common pattern, often woven in cotton, particularly in flannel, used for shirts or waistcoats. Traditional shirts of this cloth are often used by horseback riders in formal riding attire, and adorned with a stock tie.
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.