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Today's Word "melange"

A mixture or medley on Oct 9, 2024

Published in Vocabulary

melange \may-LAHNZH\ (noun) - A mixture; a medley.

"Harley Burton's office was a melange of overcrowded and mismatched furnishings. The desk, huge and oblong, was too large for the room; the chairs too small..." -- Katherine V. Forrest, 'Amateur City'

 

Melange derives from Old French meslance, from mesler, "to mix," ultimately from Latin miscere, "to mix."