melange
noun/məˈlɑnʒ/
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.
Definitions
A mixture of different things
A mixture of different things; a disordered mixture.
- The room was a melange of comic books and posters.
A Viennese coffee speciality, half steamed milk and half coffee.
A large-scale breccia formed in the accretionary wedge over a subductional environment.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for melange. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA