patchwork quilt

patchwork quilt
a) A decorative quilt made of pieces of cloth having diverse sizes, colors, and shapes, sewn together either to form a regular pattern or in a deliberately mismatched fashion without a pattern.

Despite a patchwork quilt of aid that includes scholarships, loans and an on-campus job, Kenners father, a train conductor, must now pay $6,000 out of pocket to send his daughter to school.

b) Something having a haphazard or disorganized structure; something composed of seemingly random parts.

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