crazyquilt

plural crazyquilts

1. alternativeAlternative form 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

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   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

comparative more crazyquilt · superlative most crazyquilt

1. Formed by a seemingly random assortment of things.

   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

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   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

   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