a small piece of cloth used to show people what a larger piece would look or feel like (织物的小块)样品;布样 Oxford Collocations DictionarySwatch is used after these nouns:- fabric
Word Originearly 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.