crazyquilt

Definitions

1. 1

   Alternative form of crazy quilt.

   • The mind becomes a rag-bag of information capable of affording nothing in production but a crazyquilt of information.
   • The staggered effect of random building resulted in a crazyquilt of dead ends and narrow, jagged alleyways.
   • The plains was a crazyquilt of immigrant/ethnic communities of Swedes, Norwegians, Danes, Germans, Russian Germans, Poles, Czechs, Russians, Eastern European Jews, and others.
2. 2

   Formed by a seemingly random assortment of things.

   • 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.
   • Furthermore, groundwater doctrines follow a much more crazyquilt pattern, and several states have unique statutory approaches to groundwater.
   • The stark glare reflecting from the screen spread a crazyquilt pattern of light and shadow across the vaulted ceiling above.

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