Checkerwork

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Checkerwork \Check"er*work`\ (ch[e^]k"[~e]r*w[^u]rk`), n.
     1. Work consisting of or showing checkers varied alternately
        as to colors or materials.
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     2. Any aggregate of varied vicissitudes.


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              How strange a checkerwork of Providence is the life
              of man.                               --De Foe.
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