Favoring his stiff right leg, Thom bowed with a flourish of his gleeman's cloak that set the colorful patches fluttering.

Lichens grow in colorful, flat patches.

He drew his cloak around him, the colorful patches fluttering in the breeze.

It was like putting together a quilt with diverse and colorful patches of fabric.

The males are typically black with some colorful patches, such as on the shoulders or head.

They are small parakeets with a more or less dull green basic color with some contrasting colorful patches, and are commonly known as grass parrots.

He lifted a corner of his cloak with its colorful patches as though for proof.

Although many have brightly coloured bare eye-rings, they lack the colorful patches of bare facial skin in their African counterparts, Apaloderma.

He got out of the car, and when he walked away I saw that he had colorful patches sewn onto both of his back pockets.

His little gaff-rigged sailing boat hardly looks seaworthy, with colorful patches on its sails.