swatches

plural of swatch
as in tapes
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 swatches On the other wall, red Componibili storage units by Anna Castelli Ferrierihold hold color samples, swatches and all the small things that resist categorization. Aditi Sharma, Architectural Digest, 13 June 2026 Apply large swatches on multiple walls and observe them at different times of day, under both natural and artificial light. Sophie Flaxman, Better Homes & Gardens, 13 June 2026 Along one wall, swatches of fabric hang in dense, vertical layers—florals brushing against checks, brocades against stripes—forming a kind of working tapestry. Lilah Ramzi, Vogue, 7 May 2026 Smaller swatches of The Blue and other memorabilia are available to fans starting at $40. Chadd Cripe. Produced With Ai Assistance, Idaho Statesman, 7 May 2026 Any kind of media or color swatches that catch your eye can be included. Theara Coleman, TheWeek, 9 Apr. 2026 Who hasn’t stood in front of a wall of swatches and broken out into a cold sweat, returning to the paint store two, three, even four times? Elizabeth Hutchison Hicklin, Southern Living, 3 Apr. 2026 Davies had swatches and fabrics around her desk. Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 14 Feb. 2026 Censori comes out in a latex catsuit that required 50 swatches to capture the correct shade of blood red. Anna Peele, Vanity Fair, 6 Feb. 2026
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Noun
  • Audience understanding of the uniqueness of the EW&F multi-genre musical mosaic would have been enhanced by a few clinical breakdowns of studio multitrack tapes revealing the sonic and musicological complexities involved.
    Prof. Mike Alleyne Ph.D, Forbes.com, 26 June 2026
  • His dumb derring-do went viral on VHS tapes, earning him an MTV show and five feature films.
    Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 26 June 2026
Noun
  • The vending machine will offer two-dose boxes of naloxone and other hygiene and personal safety tools, including fentanyl test strips, xylazine, barbiturates, condoms and medetomidine.
    JT Moodee Lockman, CBS News, 30 June 2026
  • The designer had also requested half-inch reveals, backed by strips of silvery metal, wherever the walls meet the floors.
    Dean Kaufman, Curbed, 30 June 2026

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“Swatches.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/swatches. Accessed 2 Jul. 2026.

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