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Webster 1913 Edition


Patchwork

Patch′workˊ

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Noun.
Work composed of pieces sewed together, esp. pieces of various colors and figures; hence, anything put together of incongruous or ill-adapted parts; something irregularly or clumsily composed; a thing patched up.
Swift.

Webster 1828 Edition


Patchwork

PATCH'WORK

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Noun.
Work composed of pieces of various figures sewed together.
1.
Work composed of pieces clumsily put together.

Definition 2024


patchwork

patchwork

English

Noun

patchwork (countable and uncountable, plural patchworks)

  1. A work, such as a blanket, composed of many different colors and shapes, sewn together to make an interesting whole.
  2. Any kind of creation that utilizes many different aspects to create one, whole piece.
    • Bill took all of his poetry and put it together in a folder. It made up a patchwork of his life.

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Translations

Verb

patchwork (third-person singular simple present patchworks, present participle patchworking, simple past and past participle patchworked)

  1. To create a patchwork from pieces of fabric.
  2. To assemble from a variety of sources; to cobble together.

French

Etymology

Borrowing from English patchwork.

Noun

patchwork m (plural patchworks)

  1. patchwork

Italian

Etymology

Borrowing from English patchwork.

Noun

patchwork m (invariable)

  1. patchwork (all senses)