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Noun: melange  mey'laÑzh
  1. A motley assortment of things
    "The drawer was filled with melange collected over the years"; "The book was a melange of facts and fiction";
    - odds and ends, oddments, farrago, ragbag, mishmash, mingle-mangle, hodgepodge [N. Amer, informal], hotchpotch, gallimaufry, omnium-gatherum, bits and bobs [Brit, informal], odds and sods [Brit, informal], bits and pieces, mélange

Derived forms: melanges, mélanges

Type of: assortment, miscellanea, miscellany, mixed bag [informal], mixture, motley, potpourri, salmagundi, smorgasbord, smörgåsbord, variety

Encyclopedia: Melange