- Crazy Quilt
- CRAZY QUILTThese are quilts made in the home by stitching together with fancy stitches, irregular bits of cloth. The bits are of all colours and materials.
Dictionary of the English textile terms. 2014.
Crazy Quilt
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crazy quilt — crazy quilt, adj. 1. a patchwork quilt made of irregular patches combined with little or no regard to pattern. 2. something that is irregular in pattern or shape, and suggestive of a crazy quilt; patchwork. [1885 90, Amer.] * * * ▪ soft… … Universalium
crazy-quilt — adj, always used before a noun a crazy quilt pattern crazy quilt streets • • • Main Entry: ↑crazy quilt … Useful english dictionary
crazy quilt — noun count AMERICAN 1. ) a PATCHWORK QUILT 2. ) a combination of things that do not seem to fit together: a crazy quilt of state and national regulations … Usage of the words and phrases in modern English
Crazy quilt — Crazy Cra zy (kr[=a] z[y^]), a. [From {Craze}.] 1. Characterized by weakness or feebleness; decrepit; broken; falling to decay; shaky; unsafe. [1913 Webster] Piles of mean andcrazy houses. Macaulay. [1913 Webster] One of great riches, but a crazy … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
crazy quilt — ☆ crazy quilt n. 1. a quilt made of pieces of cloth of various colors, patterns, shapes, and sizes 2. anything formed of incongruous or miscellaneous parts; patchwork; hodgepodge … English World dictionary
crazy quilt — n a cover for a bed, made from small pieces of cloth of different shapes and colours that have been sewn together … Dictionary of contemporary English
Crazy Quilt — This article is about the DC Comics villain; for the textile art, see Crazy quilting; for the card game, see Crazy Quilt (solitaire); for the unrelated TV show, see Crazy Quilt (TV Series). Crazy Quilt is the name of two DC Comics supervillains.… … Wikipedia
crazy quilt — noun a patchwork quilt without a design • Hypernyms: ↑patchwork, ↑patchwork quilt * * * noun, pl ⋯ quilts [count] US 1 : a covering for a bed that is made of many pieces of cloth in different sizes without a regular design 2 : a confused mix of… … Useful english dictionary
crazy quilt — UK / US noun [countable] Word forms crazy quilt : singular crazy quilt plural crazy quilts American a patchwork quilt … English dictionary
crazy-quilt — adjective Date: 1888 resembling a crazy quilt ; haphazard < a crazy quilt system > … New Collegiate Dictionary
crazy quilt — noun Date: 1886 1. a patchwork quilt without a design 2. jumble, hodgepodge < a crazy quilt of regulations > … New Collegiate Dictionary
