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
  • Kendrick Lamar’s chart-topping To Pimp a Butterfly reenters at No. 5 on Top Album Sales (11,000; up 639%) after a 10th anniversary reissue on multiple vinyl variants, as well as a cassette tape.
    Keith Caulfield, Billboard, 12 June 2025
  • Stock image of a woman removing tape from the edge of a floor during a renovation.
    Soo Kim, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 June 2025
Noun
  • The body-hugging dress—made of intersecting strips or panels resembling bandages—first debuted on the runway in 1992, after its invention in the 1980s by French designer Hervé Léger.
    Lydia Patrick, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 June 2025
  • How to use: Step one: Peel the strip from its backing liner.
    Daley Quinn, Glamour, 11 June 2025

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“Swatch.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/swatch. Accessed 18 Jun. 2025.

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