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/sˌælmɐɡˈʌndi/
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NOUN
- cooked meats and eggs and vegetables usually arranged in rows around the plate and dressed with a salad dressing
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a collection containing a variety of sorts of things
he had a variety of disorders
a veritable smorgasbord of religions
a great assortment of cars was on display
How To Use salmagundi In A Sentence
- A salmagundi of Italian marble, Japanese carpet, matched rosewood, Hawaiian monkeypod wood, gold foil and tropical fish, the Sahara Inn is like a movie set for a dream sequence in a musical starring George Jessel and Zsa Zsa Gabor.
- The big mistake the author is making, of course, is that the place he is happy to be destined for in the next life will probably be chock full of the clerical salmagundi he, understandably, wants to avoid in this. Who wants to go to a heaven full of clerical flotsam? « Anglican Samizdat
- Published by Honestech (aka Honest Technology), Fireman is a mélange -- a salmagundi if you will -- of CD and DVD creation and tools.
- Normally I am suspicious of domestic perfection, but with the holiday chaos and the unexpected visitors pouring in, it would have been nice not to have had to apologize for the snarled salmagundi of unfinished decorating. Miami Nice
- It was a new style of salmagundi; some of the boys were doused into each other, some were jolled against the tree, some sent grabbling on their faces down the hill; here one was plumped smack on the ice, there another, after being sufficiently whisked and shaken, was left standing. Margaret
- He danced the Lancashire clog-hornpipe; he rattled out puns and conundrums; yet did he contrive to infuse into all this mummery and buffoonery, into this salmagundi of the incongruous and the The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 80, June, 1864
- He devoted over 14 pages to the matter, treating also several other words galimatias, salmagundi, salmi, etc. — even Hamlet's 'miching malicho' and the Anglo-Indian mulligatawny which he perceived to be connected by the root 'ma', meaning in his opinion a small bird or chicken and serving as an important piece of evidence for the previous existence of a language, possibly older than Sanskrit, which had already been lost in medieval times but which was the source of numerous words used in the kitchen. Languagehat.com: MA, A SMALL BIRD.
- A tablespoon of this and a teaspoon of that and I soon had a fragrant salmagundi redolent with flavors that bespoke romantic evenings in Marrakech. One Big Table
- He began reviewing for small gay newspapers and now writes for Harper's, Salmagundi, The Antioch Review and Newsday.
- I shall dress her a dish of salmagundi — I shall cook a hash — compound a stew — toss up an OMELETTE The Life of Charlotte Bronte