How To Use Olla podrida In A Sentence
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Satire first signified a basket of first fruits offered to Ceres; then a hotchpot or olla podrida, then a medley; and so the name was given to poems written without any definite design.
History of English Humour, Vol. 1 (of 2) With an Introduction upon Ancient Humour
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The _haggis_, a kind of pudding, made of the offals or interior of a sheep, and boiled in the integument of its stomach; this dish, both in odour and flavour, is usually excessively offensive to the stranger; the singed sheep's head, water-souchie, Scotch soup, (an _olla podrida_ of meats and vegetables,) chicken-broth and sowens.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 380, July 11, 1829
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