swatch

as in tape
a small piece of cloth that is used as a sample for choosing colors, fabrics, etc. She looked at fabric swatches to select material for the drapes.

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Recent Examples of swatch And if a certain beloved swatch of fabric was in places almost too frail and shredded, well, would that have bothered Zelda Fitzgerald, pirouetting in the sand at la plage de la Garoupe? Lynn Yaeger, Vogue, 16 May 2025 What if designing your dream space no longer required paint swatches, fabric samples, or weeks of waiting? Ilona Limonta-Volkova, Forbes.com, 14 May 2025 This annual weed spreads with gusto, overtaking large swatches of thin turf and open soil. Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 8 May 2025 Burton did not disappoint, with a collection inspired by a stash of patterns and fabric swatches from founder Hubert de Givenchy’s first collection from 1952. Joelle Diderich, WWD, 8 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for swatch
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Noun
  • Stock photo of crime scene tape from a shooting in Royal Oak, Michigan, on May 14, 2018.
    Hollie Silverman, MSNBC Newsweek, 31 May 2025
  • Are you guys planning on doing another tape together?
    Angel Diaz, Billboard, 30 May 2025
Noun
  • The next images that appear depict three sequential viewpoints, suggesting the frames of a film strip, of a baby’s crowning head.
    Jessica Simmons-Reid, Artforum, 1 June 2025
  • Do people have access to the basics – food, medical care and water – in the south of the strip?
    Sarah-Grace Mankarious, CNN Money, 31 May 2025

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“Swatch.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/swatch. Accessed 13 Jun. 2025.

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