patchwork

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   the craft or method of sewing differently shaped pieces of fabric together into a larger design

   She learned patchwork by joining bright cotton scraps into geometric blocks.

2. 2
   noun

   a quilt, garment, or other item made from pieces of fabric sewn together

   Her grandmother folded the patchwork at the foot of the bed.

3. 3
   noun

   a mixture or system assembled from varied, often ill-fitting parts

   The final policy was a patchwork of local rules and temporary compromises.

Common collocations

• patchwork quilt Noun + noun

A compound of patch + work. Patch entered Middle English for a piece of material used in mending, while work is inherited from Old English. The literal name for sewing scraps into a whole later broadened to any arrangement made from disparate pieces, especially one lacking a single plan.

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