patchworks

• accumulations
• admixtures
• agglomerates
• agglomerations
• aggregates
• aggregations
• alloys
• alphabet soups
• amalgams
• assortments
• blends
• bollixes
• botches
• catchalls
• chaoses
• clutters
• collages
• combinations
• commixtures
• composites
• compounds
• confusions
• conglomerates
• conglomerations
• crazy quilts
• detritus
• disarrangements
• disarrays
• disorders
• farragoes
• fusions
• gallimaufries
• grab bags
• gumbos
• hashes
• hodgepodges
• hotchpotches
• imbroglios
• intermixtures
• jambalayas
• jumbles
• jungles
• knots
• litters
• medleys
• menageries
• messes
• miscellanea
• miscellanies
• mishmashes
• mix-ups
• mixed bags
• montages
• morasses
• motleys
• muddles
• notions
• oddments
• odds and ends
• olios
• olla podridas
• ollas podridas
• omnium-gatherums
• pastiches
• patchwork quilts
• potpourris
• ragbags
• ragouts
• rummages
• salads
• salmagundis
• scrambles
• shambles
• shuffles
• smorgasbords
• snarls
• stews
• sundries
• tangles
• tumbles
• varieties
• welters

• noun
  1. A work, such as a blanket, composed of many different colors and shapes, sewn together to make an interesting whole.
  2. Any kind of creation that utilizes many different aspects to create one whole piece.
  3. A state of regulations whose constituents have an opaque scope of application because of their questionable delimitation with regard to each other.

• The gallery displayed colorful patchworks made by local artists.
• She created beautiful patchworks from old fabric scraps.
• The fields looked like green and gold patchworks from above.
• His stories felt like random patchworks of memories.
• They admired the intricate designs of the handmade patchworks.

jambalayas

gallimaufries

half-and-halfs

ragbags

ragouts

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