montage vs patchwork

montage

noun
  • A composite work, particularly an artwork, created by assembling or putting together other elements such as pieces of music, pictures, texts, videos, etc. 

  • The art or process of doing this. 

verb
  • To combine into, or depict as, a montage. 

patchwork

noun
  • Any kind of creation that utilizes many different aspects to create one whole piece. 

  • A work, such as a blanket, composed of many different colors and shapes, sewn together to make an interesting whole. 

  • A state of regulations whose constituents have an opaque scope of application because of their questionable delimitation with regard to each other. 

verb
  • To create a patchwork from pieces of fabric. 

  • To assemble from a variety of sources; to cobble together. 

How often have the words montage and patchwork occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )