blotchwork

English

Etymology

From blotch +‎ work.

Noun

blotchwork (plural not attested)

1. Something with a blotchy appearance.
   • 1950, Mervyn Peake, Gormenghast, London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, →OCLC:

     , London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, Chapter 19,

     He was clothed in what had once been a suit of black material, but was now so bleached by sun and soaked in a hundred dews that it had become a threadbare blotchwork of olive-and-grey rags […]

   • 1983, Norman Spinrad, The Void Captain's Tale:

     Her cheeks were a hideous blotchwork of flush and pallor, and there were great blackened hollows under her grit-sealed eyes.

   • 2000, Brian Evenson, Contagion and other stories:

     The brain had been removed, the emptied interior case showing in its blotchwork signs of siriasis or, as it is commonly called, sideration.