patch
noun
a small piece of material used to mend a tear or break, to cover a hole, or to strengthen a weak place.
well-patched
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a word derived from
patch.
Example Sentences
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Another will only relieve those who are clothed in well-patched rags, or “real misery;” and then the appearance must be that of squalid destitution.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 377, March 1847 by Various
An old blue suit of well-patched clothes sufficed for him; but he must needs have a rose or violet in his buttonhole, with which the ladies of Soleure took care to keep him supplied.
From Kościuszko A Biography by Monica M. (Monica Mary) Gardner
Such, then, was my jacket: a well-patched, padded, and porous one; and in a dark night, gleaming white as the White Lady of Avenel!
From White Jacket or, the World on a Man-of-War by Herman Melville
"Poor thing, poor young thing!" she murmured, gazing at a pair of well-patched boots which she held in her hand.
From Maurice Guest by Henry Handel Richardson
He found no pockets in his well-patched overcoat when he took it down, but he pursued the dust into its lining, and separated it carefully from little dabs of wool.
From Old Man Savarin and Other Stories by Edward William Thomson
