"epaulette mate" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "Due to perceived visual similarity between rooks and epaulettes.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "epaulette mates",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "epaulette mate (plural epaulette mates)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Checkmate patterns",
          "orig": "en:Checkmate patterns",
          "parents": [
            "Chess",
            "Board games",
            "Tabletop games",
            "Games",
            "Recreation",
            "Human activity",
            "Human behaviour",
            "Human",
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            "Fundamental"
          ],
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        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Chess",
          "orig": "en:Chess",
          "parents": [
            "Board games",
            "Tabletop games",
            "Games",
            "Recreation",
            "Human activity",
            "Human behaviour",
            "Human",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A checkmate pattern in which the losing side's king is unable to escape because its two surrounding parallel flight squares are occupied by pieces of its own color. Most commonly occurs with two rooks on the back rank."
      ],
      "id": "en-epaulette_mate-en-noun-XCcRFBOs",
      "links": [
        [
          "chess",
          "chess"
        ],
        [
          "checkmate",
          "checkmate"
        ],
        [
          "pattern",
          "pattern"
        ],
        [
          "king",
          "king"
        ],
        [
          "flight square",
          "flight square"
        ],
        [
          "rook",
          "rook"
        ],
        [
          "back rank",
          "back rank"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(chess) A checkmate pattern in which the losing side's king is unable to escape because its two surrounding parallel flight squares are occupied by pieces of its own color. Most commonly occurs with two rooks on the back rank."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "epaulet mate"
        }
      ],
      "topics": [
        "board-games",
        "chess",
        "games"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "word": "olkainmatti"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "Epaulettenmatt"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "epaulette mate"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "Due to perceived visual similarity between rooks and epaulettes.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "epaulette mates",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "epaulette mate (plural epaulette mates)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "Translation table header lacks gloss",
        "en:Checkmate patterns",
        "en:Chess"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A checkmate pattern in which the losing side's king is unable to escape because its two surrounding parallel flight squares are occupied by pieces of its own color. Most commonly occurs with two rooks on the back rank."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "chess",
          "chess"
        ],
        [
          "checkmate",
          "checkmate"
        ],
        [
          "pattern",
          "pattern"
        ],
        [
          "king",
          "king"
        ],
        [
          "flight square",
          "flight square"
        ],
        [
          "rook",
          "rook"
        ],
        [
          "back rank",
          "back rank"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(chess) A checkmate pattern in which the losing side's king is unable to escape because its two surrounding parallel flight squares are occupied by pieces of its own color. Most commonly occurs with two rooks on the back rank."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "board-games",
        "chess",
        "games"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "epaulet mate"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "word": "olkainmatti"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "Epaulettenmatt"
    }
  ],
  "word": "epaulette mate"
}