swatch
/swɒtʃ/noun
1- a sample, especially of fabric样品(尤指样布)。
1.1
- a collection of such samples, especially in the form of a book样品集(尤指以书的形式)。
1.2
- a patch or area of a material or surface(物体或表面的)一片; 一团:
the sunset had filled the sky with swatches of deep orange.
落日把天空染成了一片片深橙色。
词源
early 16th cent. (originally Scots and northern English, denoting the counterfoil of a tally, and later a tally fixed to a piece of cloth before dyeing): of unknown origin.