Houndstooth, hounds tooth check or hound´s tooth (and similar spellings), also known as dogstooth, dogtooth, dog´s tooth, (French: pied-de-poule, lit. 'hen´s foot'), (Chinese: 千鸟格; pinyin: qiānniǎo gé; lit. ´thousand-bird pattern´), is a duotone textile pattern characterized by broken checks or abstract four-pointed shapes, traditionally in black and white or such contrasting dark and light pattern.
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