English

Noun

zigsaw puzzle ‎(plural zigsaw puzzles)

1. (India) Alternative form of jigsaw puzzle
   • 1984, Dilip Kumar Ray, Museum and physically handicapped in India, Darbari Udjog, page 59:

     As for example, the young participants may be supplied with small wooden blocks or zigsaw puzzles to construct a particular scene displayed in the museum […]

   • 1990, Ravindra Kumar, Problem of communalism in India:

     Hinduism is a zigsaw puzzle in that it contains every philosophy and most religions and outlooks, practices and observances, innumerable gods one fighting the other.

   • 1999, B.K.Tripathy, Baba Bugi:

     BB Patnaik sat with a zigsaw puzzle of the map of India meant for the kindergarten. He had separated the states and put them in four piles.