crazy paving

English

Noun

crazy paving (usually uncountable, plural crazy pavings)

1. Paving with pieces of irregular size and shape that fit together and (approximately) cover the surface.

   crazy-paving pattern

   • 2012, Karl F. Schaller, Colour Atlas of Tropical Dermatology and Venerology, page 13-64:

     On the legs the changes are more marked and appear as a crazy-paving pattern.

   • 2012 -, Jeff Dawson, Dead Reckoning, →ISBN:

     The convoy was proceeding down the dry, cracked crazy-paving riverbed of the Gomatum.

   • 2014, Eric Scott, I Could Have Been a Contender: Memoirs of a Black Sheep, →ISBN:

     Mine in particular was this: I had to dig up a crazy-paving path out of the frozen earth and lay it again one yard further on.

See also

• crazy quilt

Further reading

• crazy paving on Wikipedia.Wikipedia