Subject: Re: Thursday Chat 07.24.08 by bastet44 on 2008/7/24 14:45:11
Word of the Day for Thursday, July 24, 2008
melange \may-LAHNZH\ noun
A mixture; a medley.
Interspersed with diverse lectures and classroom activities were periods of financial difficulty, military service, and employment as a private tutor, all of which added to the curious melange of experiences that would ultimately blossom into his unexpected and remarkable life's work. -- Norman Brosterman, Inventing Kindergarten
The smell in the car . . . was a pungent, sour melange of garlic, unwashed bodies, vodka, musty woolen overcoats, and Bulgarian tobacco. -- Fen Montaigne, Reeling in Russia
