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Definition of Patched
1. Adjective. Mended usually clumsily by covering a hole with a patch. "Patched jeans"
2. Adjective. Having spots or patches (small areas of contrasting color or texture). "A black-and-white spotted cow"
Definition of Patched
1. Adjective. Having been patched. ¹
2. Verb. (past of patch) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Patched
1. patch [v] - See also: patch
Lexicographical Neighbors of Patched
Literary usage of Patched
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1904)
"The sand drier was In a house; pretty good house; one room and had a partition—a
kind of sand bin. He had took and patched It. ..."
2. Curiosities of Literature by Isaac Disraeli (1823)
"And further, the patched dress was used by the ancient peasants of Italy, as
appears by a passage in Celsus de Re Rust. Lib. I. c. ..."
3. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN, Sidney Lee (1890)
"... his name from the new privy council on 9 April ; but a reconciliation having
been patched up at the time of the threatened invasion by ..."
4. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1868)
"... when its servants wore broken boots and patched pantaloons." " The world needs
spendthrifts as it needs tornadoes. The whirlwind purifies even as it ..."
5. The Confederation and the Constitution, 1783-1789 by Andrew Cunningham McLaughlin (1905)
"CHAPTER XIII SHALL THE CONFEDERATION BE patched UP? THE consideration of the
Virginia plan went rapidly forward in the early days ..."
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