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patched

/pæt͡ʃt/ adjective B2
  1. Having been repaired with a patch or patches.
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The bronze medal for mathematics was considered as good as won by a fat, funny little up-country boy with a bumpy forehead and a patched coat.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 299 · C1
Suddenly we looked down into a cuplike depression, patched with stunted oaks and firs which had been twisted and bent by the fury of years of storm.
The Hound of the Baskervilles, p. 68 · C1
I know it all; that the young man’s marrying her was a patched-up business, at the expense of your father and uncle.
Pride and Prejudice, p. 340 · B2

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