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melange

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mé·lange also me·lange  (m-läzh)
n.
A mixture: "[a] building crowned with a mélange of antennae and satellite dishes" Howard Kaplan.

[French, from Old French meslance, from mesler, to mix; see meddle.]

melange [may-lahnzh]
Noun
a mixture or assortment: a melange of historical facts and legends [French mêler to mix]

mélange  (m-läzh)
A metamorphic rock formation created from materials scraped off the top of a downward moving tectonic plate in a subduction zone. Mélanges occur where plates of oceanic crust subduct beneath plates of continental crust, as along the western coast of South America. They consist of intensely deformed marine sediments and ocean-floor basalts and are characterized by the lack of regular strata, the inclusion of fragments and blocks of various rock types, and the presence of minerals that form only under high pressure and low temperature conditions.
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Noun1.melange - a motley assortment of things
assortment, miscellanea, miscellany, mixed bag, motley, potpourri, salmagundi, smorgasbord, variety, mixture - a collection containing a variety of sorts of things; "a great assortment of cars was on display"; "he had a variety of disorders"; "a veritable smorgasbord of religions"

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Here he kept a retinue of Kaffirs, who were literally his slaves; and hence he would sally, with enormous diamonds in his shirt and on his finger, in the convoy of a prize-fighter of heinous repute, who was not, however, by any means the worst element in the Rosenthall melange.
These romances, carrying further the tendency which appears in Sidney's 'Arcadia,' are among the most extravagant of all products of the romantic imagination--strange melanges of ancient history, medieval chivalry, pastoralism, seventeenth century artificial manners, and allegory of current events.
Here lay an ovenful of the latest ethics - there a kettle of dudecimo melanges.
 
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