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blotchwork en · NOUN

Etymology

From blotch + work.

Meanings

  1. (no-plural) Something with a blotchy appearance.
    • The brain had been removed, the emptied interior case showing in its blotchwork signs of siriasis or, as it is commonly called, sideration. 2000, Brian Evenson, Contagion and other stories:
    • , 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 […]
    • Her cheeks were a hideous blotchwork of flush and pallor, and there were great blackened hollows under her grit-sealed eyes. 1983, Norman Spinrad, The Void Captain's Tale: