Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
assortment .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Assortiment.
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- noun obsolete
assortment
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Examples
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People will find equally thither, a complete sortment of stranger wines, and of the kingdom, hot and cold baths, stables and coach houses, the whole with very moderated prices.
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That establishment will avoid to all travellers, visitors of that sepult city and to the artists (willing draw the antiquities) a great disorder occasioned by tardy and expensive contour of the iron whay people will find equally thither a complete sortment of stranger wines and of the kingdom, hot and cold baths, stables, coach houses, the whole at very moderated prices.
Literary Blunders; A chapter in the "History of Human Error" 1893
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The first notice that I have seen is in the _Salem Gazette_ of 1784 -- "a rich sortment of shawls."
Customs and Fashions in Old New England Alice Morse Earle 1881
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That establishment will avoid to all travellers, visitors of that sepult city and to the artists (willing draw the antiquities) a great disorder occasioned by tardy and expensive contour of the iron whay people will find equally thither a complete sortment of stranger wines and of the kingdom, hot and cold baths, stables, coach houses, the whole at very moderated prices.
Literary Blunders Henry Benjamin Wheatley 1877
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I have never seen such a valuable as - sortment of people on such a misguided, ill - considered journey in my life. "
Heir of Sea and Fire McKillip, Patricia A. 1977
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