Meaning of checklaton | Babel Free

Definitions

Noun. [B2]

Examples

“But in a Iacket quilted richly rare, / Vpon checklaton he was ſtraungely dight, / And on his head a roll of linnen plight, / Like⟳ to the Mores of Malaber he wore;”

“Her girdle, sandals, bracelets, glistering hood / Of checklaton, are wondrous;”

“Going to her wardrobe she thence took, and dressed herself in a gown of common checklaton, or striped stuff;[…]Accosting each peasant on the road, Gaultier enquired if he had either met, or seen, or heard of, a young maiden, passing that way on foot, clad in a dress of checklaton, having a dark-coloured chappe, or tunic, flung over it;[…]Geoffroi, looking in the direction of the spot designated to him, was nearly as much struck as his Lord, when he perceived a young woman of exactly the same height as the Lady Emily, and dressed in the same stuff checklaton, and the dark-coloured mantle she had worn upon the night of her departure from Bavay.[…]“Why, that’s true,” he replied—“that’s very true, and though methought I had ne’er seen any checklaton⸺” “I don’t care about the checklaton, hundreds may wear⟳ the same.—I look⟳ to the height, and feel⟳ assured she was not so tall as the Lady Emily”—interrupted Gaultier.”

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