swatch
noun/swɒtʃ/
/swɑːtʃ/
- a small piece of cloth used to show people what a larger piece would look or feel likeOxford Collocations DictionarySwatch is used after these nouns:
- fabric
Word Originearly 16th cent. (originally Scots and northern English, denoting the counterfoil of a tally, and later a tally fixed to a piece of cloth before dyeing): of unknown origin.Definitions on the go
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