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crazy quilt
noun
a patchwork quilt made of irregular patches combined with little or no regard to pattern.
something that is irregular in pattern or shape, and suggestive of a crazy quilt; patchwork.
crazy quilt
noun
a patchwork quilt made from assorted pieces of material of irregular shape, size, and colour
Other Word Forms
- crazy-quilt adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of crazy quilt1
Example Sentences
Rounding out this crazy quilt of strained, intersecting story strands and blunt coincidences is a subplot that eventually becomes the main one.
Over many years, as it grew into one of the city’s tent-pole institutions, the museum accreted some two dozen buildings in different historical styles, increasingly pieced together like a crazy quilt.
“The Georgia statute kicks it to the school districts to develop their own policies, and we are seeing a crazy quilt,” Weber said.
Even so, this is an irresistible crazy quilt of Western history.
I peeked out my one window to be greeted by a sky like a gray flannel crazy quilt.
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