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zigsaw_puzzle

zigsaw puzzle

English

Noun

zigsaw puzzle (plural zigsaw puzzles)

  1. (India) Alternative form of jigsaw puzzle
    • 1984, Dilip Kumar Ray, Museum and physically handicapped in India, Darbari Udjog, page 59:
      As for example, the young participants may be supplied with small wooden blocks or zigsaw puzzles to construct a particular scene displayed in the museum []
    • 1990, Ravindra Kumar, Problem of communalism in India:
      Hinduism is a zigsaw puzzle in that it contains every philosophy and most religions and outlooks, practices and observances, innumerable gods one fighting the other.
    • 1999, B.K.Tripathy, Baba Bugi:
      BB Patnaik sat with a zigsaw puzzle of the map of India meant for the kindergarten. He had separated the states and put them in four piles.