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Salmagundi   Listen
noun
Salmagundi  n.  
1.
A mixture of chopped meat and pickled herring, with oil, vinegar, pepper, and onions.
2.
Hence, a mixture of various ingredients; an olio or medley; a potpourri; a miscellany.





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"Salmagundi" Quotes from Famous Books



... 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


Words linked to "Salmagundi" :   assortment, sampler, gallimaufry, mishmash, omnium-gatherum, hotchpotch, collection, oddments, motley, selection, grab bag, range, smorgasbord, ragbag, melange, variety, mixture, witches' broth, mingle-mangle, accumulation, hodgepodge


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