patchwork

patchwork
noun Usage: often attributive Date: 1692 1. something composed of miscellaneous or incongruous parts ; hodgepodge 2. pieces of cloth of various colors and shapes sewn together to form a covering; also something resembling such a covering <
a patchwork of fields
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