Meanings
- no pluralSomething with a blotchy appearance.
, 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 […]
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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 TaleThe 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
Origin
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