The kitchen was old linoleum in black-and-white checkerboard design, brightly lit by overhead fluorescent lights.

The beautifully decorated 6m-high by 68m-long retaining wall of the precipice platform bears a checkerboard design along its entire length.

Light from the control room below cast a checkerboard design on the ceiling of the tunnel.

The fields of grain and alfalfa were strange in their small size and checkerboard design.

Food hut (green peaked roof with checkerboard design) - for canoes and food.

Tool hut (flat roof, checkerboard design) - for shovels, ropes and canteens.

Weapons hut (black peaked roof, checkerboard design) - for pistols, machetes and whips.

"They were a checkerboard design in aubergine and pumpkin."

Four miniature candy boxes from France, each an inch square, have lids with variegated checkerboard designs.

They were dressed in red and yellow, the garments all of one piece, the colors in a checkerboard design.