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patchwork quilt

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Noun1.patchwork quilt - a quilt made by sewing patches of different materials togetherpatchwork quilt - a quilt made by sewing patches of different materials together
crazy quilt - a patchwork quilt without a design
quilt, comforter, puff, comfort - bedding made of two layers of cloth filled with stuffing and stitched together


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The counterpane was of patchwork, full of odd little parti-colored squares and triangles; and this arm of his tattooed all over with an interminable Cretan labyrinth of a figure, no two parts of which were of one precise shade --owing I suppose to his keeping his arm at sea unmethodically in sun and shade, his shirt sleeves irregularly rolled up at various times --this same arm of his, I say, looked for all the world like a strip of that same patchwork quilt.
Her whole time was spent in making patchwork quilts with knitting-needles that were an arshin [An ell.
The result bore some resemblance to a crazy patchwork quilt, which was heightened when, as in one of the doors he had seen, contiguous patches were painted different colors.
 
 
 
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