Melange
//məˈlɑnʒ// noun
noun ·Moderate ·College level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A mixture of different things; a disordered mixture.
"The room was a melange of comic books and posters."
- 2 a motley assortment of things wordnet
- 3 A Viennese coffee speciality, half steamed milk and half coffee.
- 4 A large-scale breccia formed in the accretionary wedge over a subductional environment.
Example
More examples"The room was a melange of comic books and posters."
Etymology
From French mélange, from Middle French mélange, meslange, from Old French meslance, meslinges (“set of diverse elements”), derived from mescler (“to mingle, mix up”) (modern French mêler), from Vulgar Latin *misculāre, from Latin misceō (“mix”) + -inges, a suffix from Frankish *-ingo (“-ing”). More at mix, -ing.
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