patchery

Noun

 * 1) Hypocrisy; trickery.
 * 2) * 1888, Samuel Cox, William Robertson Nicoll, and James Moffatt, “The Books of the Apocrypha”, The Expositor, Hodder and Stoughton, page 340
 * 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.
 * 1) * 1978, Derek Roper, Reviewing Before the Edinburgh 1788-1802, University of Delaware Press, ISBN 0874131286, page 281
 * It sounds prettily; and is, in parts, very carefully and mystically wrapped up in the gaudy envelope of poetical patchery.
 * 1) That which is thrown or sown together usually clumsily or with different color and textures, like patchwork.
 * 2) * 1863, “Naples and Lake Avernus”, The Eagle., volume 3, W. Metcalfe (Cambridge), page 285
 * The Chinese mourn in white, and some of us in Harlequin-like patchery, as though believing motley to be the only wear.
 * 1) * 1998, Gioia Timpanelli, “Rusina, Not Quite in Love”, Sometimes the Soul, Two Novellas of Sicily, W. W. Norton & Company (Sicily), ISBN 0393027449, page 131
 * 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
 * 1) * 1863, “Naples and Lake Avernus”, The Eagle., volume 3, W. Metcalfe (Cambridge), page 285
 * The Chinese mourn in white, and some of us in Harlequin-like patchery, as though believing motley to be the only wear.
 * 1) * 1998, Gioia Timpanelli, “Rusina, Not Quite in Love”, Sometimes the Soul, Two Novellas of Sicily, W. W. Norton & Company (Sicily), ISBN 0393027449, page 131
 * 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

Noun

 * 1)  Living quarters for married soldiers.