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/krˈeɪzi kwɪlt/ Listen

Crazy quilt

noun

A patchwork quilt without a design.

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"Crazy quilt" Quotes from Famous Books

... professor Revelation is a piece of crazy quilt patchwork, so full of symbols that have no intelligent meaning, symbols that can be interpreted by twenty different expositors in twenty different ways, is so full of monsters and nightmare doings that only an unbalanced mind could have written it and one ...

— Why I Preach the Second Coming • Isaac Massey Haldeman

... love to do it," declared Mabel. "But just let me show you my flag. Doesn't it look like a crazy quilt design?" and from her scout manual she unfolded a page of paper, with the required American flag drawn and colored in crayons, and not really a poor illustration ...

— The Girl Scout Pioneers - or Winning the First B. C. • Lillian C Garis

... which means bother or something like that, said Uncle Lucky, and he honked the horn with all his might, and, would you believe it, the bull was so frightened that he ran away and never stopped till he got home and covered himself with the crazy quilt on his ...

— Billy Bunny and Uncle Bull Frog • David Magie Cory

... resistance. He allowed them to carry him into the room indicated by his wife, and to lay him bound on the plump feather bed. It was not his bedroom but the sacred "spare room," and the bed was part of its luxury. Thekla ran in, first, to remove the embroidered pillow shams and the dazzling, silken "crazy quilt" ...

— Stories of a Western Town • Octave Thanet

Words linked to "Crazy quilt" : patchwork quilt, patchwork