Blends

Your tie blends well with your suit.

Textile artist-designer Mary Jaeger, who works in a 1920 factory in Brooklyn, New York, blends the time-honored elegance of Japanese textiles with contemporary Western designs.

The architecture of the new concert hall blends the traditional with the modern.

Tall and striking, with a black and gold embroidered shirt and a glittering brown bonnet, she blends in easily with the trendy, after-work crowd.

Chef Majed cracks eggs into a mixer and blends mayonnaise when we meet in Washington.

The film is being hailed as an example of the Afro-futurism movement, which blends science fiction and African tradition to reimagine the past and visualize what is to come.

I love herbal blends too.

Presenting only the finest quality of spices, teas, dried fruits, and herbs, NY Spice Shop is committed to offering only the best ingredients to you and your family. Our products are tried and tested in our home kitchens before they are deemed ready for yours. With blends lovingly created by our in-house staff, we believe that our enthusiasm and passion will be showcased in the food you eat and enchant your senses as much as it does ours.

Greg, with his shaved head and monochrome beige outfit, might indeed carry a hint of Chabacano—not only in hue ("chabacano" can mean tawdry or gaudy in Spanish, but also refers to a Philippine creole rich in cultural blending), but perhaps also in the way he casually blends cultures himself: a white man dreaming of a Bed & Breakfast in Ainu country, with a Japanese wife, and a fondness for understated simplicity. Beige shorts and T-shirt—earth-toned, like compost and bamboo stalks.

Enveloped by the magic cloud, he blends into the crowd without being seen by anyone.