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
  • The show has a punk rock, garage band, DIY, mix tape, basement, make-do sensibility, flowing from the band and album inspiring its title.
    Chadd Scott, Forbes.com, 24 June 2025
  • Yellow crime scene tape blocked much of Triplefin Way and sectioned off the home where the shooting occurred.
    Darrell Smith, Sacbee.com, 24 June 2025
Noun
  • It will be built on top of the old Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport’s air strip, surrounded by wetlands.
    Devoun Cetoute, Miami Herald, 24 June 2025
  • Since its humble beginnings as a spontaneous late-night strip show at a New York City bar, Broadway Bares has grown into a full-scale production featuring elaborate costumes, themed choreography, celebrity cameos and dozens of Broadway performers who bare (almost) all in the name of a good cause.
    Dave Quinn, People.com, 23 June 2025

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“Swatch.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/swatch. Accessed 1 Jul. 2025.

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