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  2. Check (pattern) - Wikipedia

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    Check (also checker, Brit: chequer, or dicing) is a pattern of modified stripes consisting of crossed horizontal and vertical lines which form squares.The pattern typically contains two colours where a single checker (that is a single square within the check pattern) is surrounded on all four sides by a checker of a different colour.

  3. Battenburg markings - Wikipedia

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    A Volvo pump truck from South Australian Fire with red-and-yellow Battenburg markings. Battenburg markings or Battenberg markings [a] are a pattern of high-visibility markings developed in the United Kingdom in the 1990s and currently seen on many types of emergency service vehicles in the UK, Crown dependencies, British Overseas Territories and several other European countries including the ...

  4. List of flags by design - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of flags, arranged by design, serving as a navigational aid for identifying a given flag.Uncharged flags are flags that either are solid or contain only rectangles, squares and crosses but no crescents, circles, stars, triangles, maps, flags, coats of arms or other objects or symbols.

  5. Racing flags - Wikipedia

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    The chequered, red, yellow, white, and green flags are used identically to how they are used in auto racing. The yellow and red striped flag is used to indicate debris on the track. Other flags used include: A white flag with couped red cross, to indicate medical attention is required near the marshalling post.

  6. Traffic signs by country - Wikipedia

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    Mandatory signs are similar to European signs. They are circular with a red border, a white background and a black symbol. Stop sign and Yield sign are as European, except the word "Stop" is changed for "Pare" and the Yield sign has no letters; it is a red triangle with white centre. Information signs have many shapes and colours.

  7. List of national flags by design - Wikipedia

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    Notably, the Union Jack features in many territorial and sub-national flags usually based on the Red Ensign (e.g., Bermuda) or Blue Ensign (e.g., New South Wales). The British Ensign in a few cases have backgrounds of other colours (e.g. British Antarctic Territory and Niue ) or a unique pattern in the field (e.g. British Indian Ocean Territory ...

  8. Battenberg cake - Wikipedia

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    Battenberg [1] or Battenburg [2] cake is a light sponge cake with variously coloured sections held together with jam and covered in marzipan.In cross section, the cake has a distinctive pink and yellow check pattern.

  9. Blazon - Wikipedia

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    The word blazon is derived from French blason, ' shield '. It is found in English by the end of the 14th century. [1] Formerly, heraldic authorities believed that the word was related to the German verb blasen ' to blow (a horn) '. [2] [3] Present-day lexicographers reject this theory as conjectural and disproved. [1]