Houndstooth
[houndz-tooth] /ˈhaʊndzˌtuθ/
adjective
1.
woven or printed with a pattern of broken or jagged checks:
a hound’s-tooth jacket.
noun
a woven fabric design of continuous broken checks or four-pointed stars; also called four-and-four check
Word Origin
pattern is reminiscent of the jagged back teeth of a hound
also hound’s tooth, as a design pattern, 1936, so called for resemblance.
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