Patchwork vs Salmagundi - What's the difference?
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A work, such as a blanket, composed of many different colors and shapes, sewn together to make an interesting whole.
Any kind of creation that utilizes many different aspects to create one, whole piece.
* Bill took all of his poetry and put it together in a folder. It made up a patchwork of his life.
To create a patchwork from pieces of fabric
To assemble from a variety of sources; to cobble together
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A food consisting of chopped meat and pickled herring, with oil, vinegar, pepper, and onions.
Hence, any mixture of various ingredients; an olio or medley; a potpourri; a miscellany.
*2002 , , The Great Nation , Penguin 2003, p. 544:
*:Partly too it reflected the nature of Revolutionary politics throughout the 1790s, which was invariably a kind of inspired bricolage , which involved yoking together a wide range of pre-existent elements into an unanticipated and constantly changing salmagundi of political forms.
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