1 [U] a type of NEEDLEWORK in which small pieces of fabric of different colours or designs are sewn together:
a patchwork quilt
2 [sing.] a thing that is made up of many different pieces or parts:
a patchwork of different styles and cultures * From the plane, the landscape was just a patchwork of fields.
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