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Jigsaw puzzle   /dʒˈɪgsˌɔ pˈəzəl/   Listen
Jigsaw puzzle

noun
1.
A puzzle that requires you to reassemble a picture that has been mounted on a stiff base and cut into interlocking pieces.





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"Jigsaw puzzle" Quotes from Famous Books



... it just doesn't look right. Those newspaper stories I read—pure bushwa, from beginning to end. I'm dead certain of it. And yet—" he paused, searching for words. "Look. It's like I'm looking at a jigsaw puzzle that looks like it's all completed and lying out on the table. But there's something that tells me I'm being foxed, that it isn't a complete puzzle at all, just an illusion, yet somehow I can't even tell for ...
— Bear Trap • Alan Edward Nourse
... windows the blue is paling to grey. Cocks are crowing now quite close, now faintly, like an echo. Suddenly the world is filled with work, "washings, brushings, combings, cleanings, temperatures, breakfasts, medicines, some beds to make, reports, all fitted together like a jigsaw puzzle, until at last the day-sisters come and relieve, and yawning at the daylight one eats warmed-up dinner while ...
— The Luck of Thirteen - Wanderings and Flight through Montenegro and Serbia • Jan Gordon


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