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scaccarizare

scaccarizare [scaccarium+-izare < -ίζειν], to mark like a chess-board, to decorate with squares of two different colours, (also p. ppl. as adj.) checkered. b (her.) checky. 1507 par vestimentorum de velvett' ~izatum Reg. Merton I 345.  b sunt et alii qui habent arma ~isata ‥ et portat de azoreo et aureo scaccariatim. et Gallice sic, il port de azour et de ore chekkie Bad. Aur. 141.

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