multi-patched

Updated: May 6, 2025

Mr. Ricketty is composed of angles. From his high silk hat worn into dulness, through his black frock coat worn into brightness, along each leg of his broad-checked trowsers worn into rustiness, down into his flat, multi-patched boots, he is a long series of unrelieved angles.

Lemuel Ely Quigg - Tin-Types Taken in the Streets of New York: A Series of Stories and Sketches Portraying Many Singular: Phases of Metropolitan Life