olio

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The space between these wings and the line of the olio is called "Two In Two, acts such as flirtation-acts--a man and a woman playing lover-like scenes--which use scenery or small "props," and all other turns requiring but a small playing space, are staged 3.

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  1. noun A heavily spiced stew of meat, vegetables, and chickpeas.
  2. noun A mixture or medley; a hodgepodge.
  3. noun A collection of various artistic or literary works or musical pieces; a miscellany.
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  • Some find McDonalds emblematic of American cultural and economic hegemony, while others see it as a concrete example of the olio-centric destruction of native habitat, public health, and the atmosphere. —  Wi-Fi Networking News
  • A enduring time of piracy and colonization have culminated with an olio of Afro and Euro cultures. —  MyLinkVault Newest Links
  • Randall said aglio e olio can be prepared in the time it takes to boil water. —  The Observer-Dispatch Home RSS
  • Italian chicken cutlets, broccoli and spaghetti aglio e olio for Columbus Day —  WN.com - Articles related to Thousands race in Egypt to fight breast cancer
  • There is surely an hilarious informality about these media-nochi that attaches to no antecedent feast; the freedom of a picnic, without its manifold inconveniences: as the witching hour draws nearer, the "brightest eyes that ever have shone" glitter yet more gloriously, till in their nearer and dearer splendor a Chaldean would forget the stars; and the "sweetest lips that ever were kissed" sip the creaming Verzenay, or savor the delicate "olio," with a keener honesty of zest. —  Border and Bastille
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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Alteration of Spanish olla, pot; see olla.

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  1. Formerly also oglio, with the common mistake of -o for -a in words adopted from Spanish (cf. bastinado); for *olia = Spanish olla = Portuguese olha (both pron. ol′yä), an earthen pot, a dish of meat boiled or stewed, a medley, = Old French olle, ole, from Latin olla, a pot: see olla.
 

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