patchwork quilt
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3.3
- noun
- /ˈpæʧˌwɜrk kwɪlt/
:
colcha de retazos
- A nice home-made patchwork quilt.
Examples
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Under constant guard, she composed songs expressing her love for her people and began making a patchwork quilt that told the story of her life.
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You could help others by making the patchwork quilt for the orphans if you wanted!
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You sit back on the patchwork quilt of my childhood.
Fiction book (1996) -
I thought, perhaps, you'd like to stitch them together to make a patchwork quilt for the bazaar.
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The National Mall looked like a patchwork quilt, with thousands of union workers grouped in clusters wearing t-shirts in their respective colors.
Blog text (31) -
I've been cutting 4 1/2" squares of these fabrics to make a patchwork quilt because I want to try this quilting pattern.
Blog text (15) -
The panels were grouped in various configurations throughout the exhibition space, resembling a vividly colored patchwork quilt.
Academic text (2006) -
Rose lay on her back, a patchwork quilt drawn up to her chin.
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Lying there in the small hotel room under the patchwork quilt, they listened to the icy wind rushing through the eaves.
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You could help others by making the patchwork quilt for the orphans if you wanted!
Synonyms
9
3.5
A quilt made by sewing together different pieces of cloth
1
6.0
A bed cover made from many different small pieces of fabric sewn together
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Morphology
The meaning 'a quilt made by sewing together pieces of fabric' is directly and compositionally derived from 'patchwork' (an assembly of varied fabric pieces) combined with 'quilt' (stitched fabric layers with filling). This straightforward noun+noun compound follows common cross-linguistic patterns and would be immediately understandable to a B1 learner who knows both constituents.
Etymology
Patchwork quilt comes from the simple idea of sewing many small pieces of cloth, called patches, together to make a warm cover. That's why it means 'a blanket made from different pieces of fabric'.