piecing

English

Noun

piecing (plural piecings)

1. A patch.
   • 1944, Clarice L. Scott, Make-overs from Coats and Suits:

     When you're laying out the pattern, try to arrange it so piecings and repairs fall in a part of the garment where they won't show — in hems, facings, underarm in waist or sleeves.

Verb

piecing

1. present participle and gerund of piece

References

• Meaning "patch": 1949, John Dover Wilson (compiler), Life in Shakespeare's England. A Book of Elizabethan Prose, Cambridge at the University Press. 1st ed. 1911, 2nd ed. 1913, 8th reprint. In Glossary and Notes