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crazyquilt en · ADJ

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1. Formed by a seemingly random assortment of things.
   • World War II drained the community of physicians and health personnel, created housing shortages and job mobility, and served to push more people into a crazyquilt variety of nursing homes which seemed to assure housing and medical care. 1975, Ruth I. Knee, Human Factors in Long Term Health Care, page 63:
   • The stark glare reflecting from the screen spread a crazyquilt pattern of light and shadow across the vaulted ceiling above. 2013, Douglas Schofield, Succession, page 37:
   • Furthermore, groundwater doctrines follow a much more crazyquilt pattern, and several states have unique statutory approaches to groundwater. 2000, Joseph L. Sax, Legal Control of Water Resources: Cases and Materials, page 758:

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crazyquilting · crazyquilted

crazyquilt en · NOUN

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1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of crazy quilt.
   alt of crazy quilt
   • The staggered effect of random building resulted in a crazyquilt of dead ends and narrow, jagged alleyways. 2003, Loren W. Cooper, A Slow and Silent Stream, page 88:
   • The mind becomes a rag-bag of information capable of affording nothing in production but a crazyquilt of information. 1914, John Vietch Shoemaker, Health and Beauty, page 201:
   • The plains was a crazyquilt of immigrant/ethnic communities of Swedes, Norwegians, Danes, Germans, Russian Germans, Poles, Czechs, Russians, Eastern European Jews, and others. 2005, Edwin S. Gaustad, Unto A Good Land: A History Of The American People - Volume 1, page 568:

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