patchwork quilt
Noun
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Noun
patchwork quilt (plural patchwork quilts)
- (literally) A decorative quilt made of pieces of cloth having diverse sizes, colors, and shapes, sewn together either to form a regular pattern or in a deliberately mismatched fashion without a pattern. c en
- (figuratively, by extension) Something having a haphazard or disorganized structure; something composed of seemingly random parts.
- 1989, Susan Tifft et. al., "[http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,958634,00.html Sticker Shock at the Ivory Tower]," Time, 25 Sep.:
- Despite a patchwork quilt of aid that includes scholarships, loans and an on-campus job, Kenner's father, a train conductor, must now pay $6,000 out of pocket to send his daughter to school.
- 1989, Susan Tifft et. al., "[http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,958634,00.html Sticker Shock at the Ivory Tower]," Time, 25 Sep.:
- (Something having a haphazard or disorganized structure or random composition) hodgepodge, jumble
- German: Patchworkdecke
- German: Flickenteppich, Sammelsurium
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