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blotchwork

noun · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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noun

Meaning 1

Something with a blotchy appearance.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: no-plural

Examples

  • , 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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History

Etymology

From blotch + work.