bepatched

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1. Covered in patches.

   Wherefore, at times, as if in ancient mould / He looms, bepatched with paint […]

   1901, Thomas Hardy, The Sick Battle-God

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   'Don't trouble' said the parson distantly, unmoved by the bepatched swagsman's splendid offer.

   1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 193