melange

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Alternative forms 1.2 Etymology 1.3 Pronunciation 1.4 Noun 1.4.1 Synonyms 1.4.2 Translations

[edit] English

[edit] Alternative forms

• mélange

[edit] Etymology

From French mélange, from Old French meslance, mellance derived from mesler “to mix” (modern French mêler), from Vulgar Latin *misculare, from Latin misceō.

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: /mɛˈlɑ̃ʒ/, SAMPA: /%me"lA~Z/
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[edit] Noun

melange (plural melanges)

1. A collection containing a variety of miscellaneous things

   The room was a melange of comic books and posters.

2. A Viennese coffee speciality, half steamed milk and half coffee.
3. (fiction) A fictional drug in Frank Herbert's science-fiction Dune series, used to lengthen life, flavor food, heighten awareness, probe the memories of one's ancestors, and induce prescience.

[edit] Synonyms

• (collection of a variety of things): assortment, farrago, hodgepodge, hotchpotch, mingle-mangle, mishmash, mixture, omnium-gatherum, ragbag
• (fictional drug in Dune novels): spice, the spice
• See also Wikisaurus:hodgepodge

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