melange

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Pine notes pop up as well in this fruity melange which is a nice blend of bitter and sweet aromas.

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  • I believe nobody ever had such a melange before.” —  Lady Mary Wortley Montague
  • Their conversation was a melange of both, an uncertain brew of slippery human vowels and fricative thranx clicks and whistles. —  Dirge
  • They both leaped apart with curses, and a dark-skinned woman with a mouth full of pointed teeth reared up out of the mist, hissed at them and yanked the trident free. —  The Serpent's Shadow
  • Had the authorities in charge not decided to hold this misconceived melange of a fair in the middle of the hottest month on the northern continent of the colony, he did not think he could have stood being outside for very long without proper survival gear. —  Diuturnity's Dawn
  • Pine notes pop up as well in this fruity melange which is a nice blend of bitter and sweet aromas. —  Reader - MassLive.com
 

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