Blotchwork

noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Something with a blotchy appearance. no-plural

    ", London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, Chapter 19, He was clothed in what had once been a suit of black material, but was now so bleached by sun and soaked in a hundred dews that it had become a threadbare blotchwork of olive-and-grey rags […]"

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", London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, Chapter 19, He was clothed in what had once been a suit of black material, but was now so bleached by sun and soaked in a hundred dews that it had become a threadbare blotchwork of olive-and-grey rags […]"

Etymology

From blotch + work.

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