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English
Noun
piecing (plural piecings)
- 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
- 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