2. Any aggregate of varied vicissitudes.
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How strange a checkerwork of Providence is the life of man. --De Foe. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English. 2000.
checkerwork — ˈ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷ noun 1. : work with a checkered pattern : work marked by checks : checkered design a checkerwork of light and shadow 2. : sequence of changing fortune : vicissitude the checkerwork of our lives 3. : a structure of firebrick (as in… … Useful english dictionary
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