swatch

The Care Takerから取り上げる最後の単語です。
He smells the sweet fruit of a tomato, pink now with a swatch of yellow on one side, and the aroma is almost too much to bear.
スイスの時計と同じスペルの "swatch" が出て来ましたがどんな意味でしょうか？
・Oxford English Dictionary: A patch or area of a material or surface: the sunset had filled the sky with swatches of deep orange
・Collins Dictionary: 1. a sample of cloth 2. a number of such samples, usually fastened together in book form 3.(printing) a. a small sample of colour supplied to the printer for matching during printing b.a sample of ink spread on paper by a printer to check the accuracy of a required colour
小説での用例の意味に直接あう説明を記載しているのはOxford English Dictionaryだけで、他の辞書にはほとんどCollins Dictionaryと同じ様な説明しかありませんでしたが、恐らく語源は布のサンプル生地から来ている様だ。