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Salmagundi

noun

A collection containing a variety of sorts of things. Synonyms: assortment, miscellanea, miscellany, mixed bag, mixture, motley, potpourri, smorgasbord, variety. "He had a variety of disorders" , "A veritable smorgasbord of religions"

Cooked meats and eggs and vegetables usually arranged in rows around the plate and dressed with a salad dressing.

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"Salmagundi" Quotes from Famous Books

... and bones. Shred the fish finely and mix with one large onion, well chopped. Add mustard, vinegar, and pepper to taste. Serve as salad, with young lettuce leaves, and garnish with hard-boiled eggs, sliced. This is a delightful relish with thin-sliced bread and butter, and is called "Salmagundi." ...

— Favorite Dishes • Carrie V. Shuman

... September 20 to his parents he says: "I endeavor to be as economical as possible and am getting into the habit very fast. It must be learned by degrees. I shall not say, as Salmagundi says,—'I shall spare no expense in discovering the most economical way of spending money,' but shall endeavor to practise ...

— Samuel F. B. Morse, His Letters and Journals - In Two Volumes, Volume I. • Samuel F. B. Morse

... evidently a good scholar, and even makes some parade of scholarship, was a Romantic to the core, and was all abroad in these classical measures. The Devil's Law Case sins in the opposite way, being hopelessly undigested, destitute of any central interest, and, despite fine passages, a mere "salmagundi." There remain the two famous plays of The White Devil or Vittoria Corombona and The Duchess of Malfi—plays which were rarely, if ever, acted after their author's days, and of which the earlier and, to my judgment, ...

— A History of English Literature - Elizabethan Literature • George Saintsbury