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scaccariare

scaccariare [scaccarium+-are], to mark like a chess-board, to decorate with squares of two different colours, (also p. ppl. as adj.) checkered; b (her.). 1285 j sargia scheker' ‥ sceker' (KR Ac) Arch. LXX 39; chekery, as clothys and oder thyngis, ~iatus PP; chekery, pannus ~iatus CathA.  b sunt quidam qui portant arma ~iata vel scaccata. portat de asorio et auro ~iata. Gallice, il port de asore et d'or chekkere Bad. Aur. 199.

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