Definitions
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- noun A
collection containing a variety ofmiscellaneous things - noun A
Viennese coffee speciality, half steamed milk and half coffee.
Etymologies
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Examples
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That they do so by means of a mental state bought on by melange is also significant.
Archive 2008-07-01 Hal Duncan 2008
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That they do so by means of a mental state bought on by melange is also significant.
Notes on Strange Fiction: Magic Hal Duncan 2008
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Drop the cleaning fluid and the phantom scents and the word melange, and, depending where the joss sticks are, the farther away from the cigarette sneaking clerk the better, I'd buy this.
A tin nose 2005
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Acting Defense Minister Valeriy Ivashchenko says a first consignment of the liquid component, known as melange, was taken last month to Russia for recycling into chemicals for civilian use.
www.kyivpost.com 2009
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Acting Defense Minister Valeriy Ivashchenko says a first consignment of the liquid component, known as melange, was taken last month to Russia for recycling into chemicals for civilian use.
www.kyivpost.com 2009
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-this book, rather than, say, a senseless word melange from a certain governor clear on other end of the country?
John Jeter: The Sanford Wife John Jeter 2010
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-- this book, rather than, say, a senseless word melange from a certain governor clear on other end of the country?
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So, this is the kind of melange out of which good gangster movies could come.
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The "melange", as I call it, is rather an innovation in English verse, and to be found only rarely.
The Collected Poems of Rupert Brooke Rupert Brooke 1901
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And the third success is what I should call the "melange".
The Collected Poems of Rupert Brooke Rupert Brooke 1901
brtom commented on the word melange
Melange mine own, the unseen and the seen,
Mysterious ocean where the streams empty
Whitman, "Starting from Paumanok"
January 9, 2008
typado commented on the word melange
Melange: also called the "spice" – is the name of the fictional drug central to the Dune series of science fiction novels by Frank Herbert, and derivative works.
This word is used enough in reference, scholarship and in conversation that it should be included as a definition.
June 7, 2012
RevBrently commented on the word melange
From Dave Eggers' "Zeitoun," p. 155: "It smelled dirtier every day, a wretched mélange of fish and mud and chemicals."
August 5, 2012
bilby commented on the word melange
Eggers should give up eating seafood.
August 5, 2012