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  • noun Plural form of melange.

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Examples

  • They come up with some interesting melanges, and I understand that they are not aiming for veracity.

    Writing the Other jimhines 2010

  • Other blends, such as curry powder (which contains 22 different spices), pickling spice (15 spices), and chili powder (10 spices), are broadspectrum antimicrobial melanges.

    Archive 2005-06-01 2005

  • Je nous fais des melanges de la mort qui tue et ...

    pinku-tk Diary Entry pinku-tk 2006

  • A 25,000-foot spa pictured makes use of indigenous ingredients, like native queen conch shells and herbal melanges, for treatments.

    Where We Want To Go... 2006

  • They picked up nine further Grammy nominations and recorded with singers as diverse as Dolly Parton and Steve Wonder, as well as composing music for Spike Lee and Walt Disney films, with Shabalala experimenting constantly with barrier-breaking melanges of Zulu and western music.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2005

  • Everybody's also downloading shareware and scuttling about the valley cobbling together melanges of bootleg software programs to give as presents.

    Microserfs Coupland, Douglas 1995

  • Personality -- neither soldier, nor scientist, nor littérateur -- I propose to occupy a few minutes in fragmentary talk, to give some few melanges, disconnected impressions, statistics, resultant groups, pictures, thoughts 'of him, or radiating from him.

    Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy Walt Whitman 1855

  • Here lay an oven-full of the latest ethics — there a kettle of duodecimo melanges.

    Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque. In Two Volumes. Vol. I 1840

  • Nearly every culinary tradition has its own version, from the chowders of New England to the paprika-tinted broths of Portugal and the lemongrass and coconut milk melanges of Southeast Asia.

    NPR Topics: News 2011

  • Nearly every culinary tradition has its own version of fish stew, from the chowders of New England to the paprika-tinted broths of Portugal and the lemongrass and coconut milk melanges of Southeast Asia.

    NPR Topics: News 2011

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