"patchwork quilt" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: patchwork quilts [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} patchwork quilt (plural patchwork quilts)
  1. (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. Tags: literally Categories (topical): Bedding Related terms: crazy quilt Translations (decorative quilt): tilkkutäkki (Finnish), Patchworkdecke [feminine] (German), centō [masculine] (Latin), lappeteppe [neuter] (Norwegian Bokmål), lappeteppe [neuter] (Norwegian Nynorsk), colcha de parches [feminine] (Spanish), lapptäcke [neuter] (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-patchwork_quilt-en-noun-3kKg4NLD Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 85 15 Disambiguation of 'decorative quilt': 95 5
  2. (figuratively, by extension) Something having a haphazard or disorganized structure; something composed of seemingly random parts. Tags: broadly, figuratively Synonyms (Something having a haphazard or disorganized structure or random composition): hodgepodge, jumble Translations (disorganized structure): tilkkutäkki (Finnish), Flickenteppich [masculine] (German), Sammelsurium [neuter] (German), sammelsurium (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-patchwork_quilt-en-noun-rN6TB1IC Disambiguation of 'Something having a haphazard or disorganized structure or random composition': 10 90 Disambiguation of 'disorganized structure': 5 95

Inflected forms

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