Anglo-Ind. Also check. [Hindī chik.] ‘A kind of screen-blind made of finely-split bamboo, laced with twine, and often painted on the outer side; hung or framed in doorways or windows’ (Yule).
1698. Fryer, Acc. E. India & P., 92 (Y.). Their Windows, except some few of the highest Note, are usually folding Doors, skreened with Checks [printed Cheeks], or Latises.
1825. Heber, Journ. India (1844), I. 192 (Y.). The check of the tent.
1835. Emma Roberts, Scenes Hindostan, 218. A curtain … of a sort of gauze-work, formed of bamboo split very fine, coloured green, and called chick.
a. 1847. Mrs. Sherwood, Lady of Manor, V. xxix. 46. Peeping through the check by which my dressing-room was screened from the verandah.
