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Chequer
1910 New Catholic Dictionary
(Latin: scaccarium, chess-board, from the early custom of keeping accounts on a checkered cloth) Private room wherein the officials of a monastery transacted their business.
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Entry for 'Chequer'. 1910 New Catholic Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/ncd/c/chequer.html. 1910.