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- noun Plural form of
salmagundi .
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Examples
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People are not satisfied in an ordinary meal to have three ordinary courses, the first of boiled things, the second of roast, and the third of fruit; it is also necessary for a meat to be served five or six ways, with so many sauces, hashes, pastries, with so many kinds of salmagundis and other varied motley oddities as to make great prodigality.
Savoring The Past Wheaton Barbara Ketcham 1983
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People are not satisfied in an ordinary meal to have three ordinary courses, the first of boiled things, the second of roast, and the third of fruit; it is also necessary for a meat to be served five or six ways, with so many sauces, hashes, pastries, with so many kinds of salmagundis and other varied motley oddities as to make great prodigality.
Savoring The Past Wheaton Barbara Ketcham 1983
hernesheir commented on the word salmagundis
French language root of salmagundi.
June 25, 2010