What's the noun for patchcoats? Here's the word you're looking for.
patch
A piece of cloth, or other suitable material, sewed or otherwise fixed upon a garment to repair or strengthen it, especially upon an old garment to cover a hole.
A small piece of anything used to repair damage or a breach; as, a patch on a kettle, a roof, etc.
A repair intended to be used for a limited time; (differs from previous usage in that it is intended to be a temporary fix and the size of the repair is irrelevant).
A small, usually contrasting but always somehow different or distinct, part of something else (location, time, size);
(specifically) A small area, a small plot of land or piece of ground.
An area of professional responsibility
A small piece of black silk stuck on the face or neck to heighten beauty; an imitation beauty mark.
(medicine) A piece of material used to cover a wound.
(computing) A patch file, a file used for input to a patch program or that describes changes made to a computer file or files, usually changes made to a computer program that fix a programming bug.
A small piece of material that is manually passed through a gun barrel to clean it.
A piece of greased cloth or leather used as wrapping for a rifle ball, to make it fit the bore.
(patch panel) A cable connecting two pieces of electrical equipment.
(derogatory) a state of regulations the constituents of which have an opaquescope of application because of their questionable delimitation to each other
“Not the original Homer, but some later matcher and patcher, imitator or redactor.”
“What sort of a servant-girl is it, the chocolate maker, the washwoman, or the clothes patcher of the Governor Tastuanes?”
“He's been a formworker, concreter, paver, labourer, patcher and ganger, driven forklifts and all-terrain vehicles on construction sites across the northern state.”