Meaning of patchery | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Hypocrisy; trickery.
   uncountable
2. Living quarters for married soldiers.
   India, UK, historical
3. That which is thrown or sown together usually clumsily or with different color and textures, like patchwork.
   uncountable

Examples

“Thersites: Here is ſuch patchery, ſuch juggling and ſuch knavery!”

“Timon: I, and you heare him cogge, ſee him diſſemble / Know his groſſe patchery, loue him, feede him / Keepe in your boſome: yet ramain aſſur’d / That he’s a made-up villaine.”

“at Aix-la-Chappelle there is always a mighty preponderance of poverty and dullness, except in a few of the shewiest of the streets, and even there, a flashy meanness, a slight patchery of things falling to pieces is everywhere visible.”

“the learned Dr. Lightfoot...in a sermon preached in St. Margaret’s, Westminster, before the House of Commons in 1643, spoke of the “wretched Apocrypha” as “a patchery of human invention,” divorcing the end of the law from the beginning of the Gospel.”

“It sounds prettily; and is, in parts, very carefully and mystically wrapped up in the gaudy envelope of poetical patchery.”

“[The Clergy] find all that is absolutely requisite, provided in some way or other; they succeed in feeding, clothing, and educating their children, and live in sufficient comfort not to feel the ridicule which belong to dilapidation and patchery.”

“The Chinese mourn in white, and some of us in Harlequin-like patchery, as though believing motley to be the only wear.”

“In the corner next to the oven was a huge heap of black rags covering the couch. Among the patchery was a large piece of tapestry”

CEFR level