Meanings
adjectivequiltlike (comparative more quiltlike, superlative most quiltlike)
comparative more quiltlike · superlative most quiltlike
- Resembling a quilt.
Their quiltlike geometric abstractions, evoking Piet Mondrian and Sophie Taeuber-Arp, began to put a straight edge to the subway’s swoops and curlicues, its terra-cotta cornucopias and floral medallions.
2007 August 3, Randy Kennedy, “Underground Renaissance Man: Watch the Aesthetic Walls, Please”, in New York Times
Origin
- Englishquilt
- Proto-Indo-European*leyg-
- Proto-Germanic*līką
- Englishquiltlike
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