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Gallimaufry n. (pl. gallimaufries)

A hash of various kinds of meats, a ragout. "Delighting in hodge-podge, gallimaufries, forced meat."

Any absurd medley; a hotchpotch. "So in this installment I'd like to serve up a gallimaufry of tasty URLs that didn't quite fit anywhere else."

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Etymology of 'Gallimaufry'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Gallimaufry" Quotes from Famous Books

... anarchy of small curls was her chevelure, a dark upland of misrule, every hair asserting its rights over a not discreditable brow. For the rest, her features were not at all original. They seemed to have been derived rather from a gallimaufry of familiar models. From Madame la Marquise de Saint-Ouen came the shapely tilt of the nose. The mouth was a mere replica of Cupid's bow, lacquered scarlet and strung with the littlest pearls. No apple-tree, no wall of ...

— Zuleika Dobson - or, An Oxford Love Story • Max Beerbohm

... brother of much promise who sailed upon the Cygnet.... Ah! you perceive that such converse in her presence is not gentle nor seemly." He took Damaris's hand; it was quite cold. "Sweet lady," he said, in a low voice, "come with me from out this gallimaufry." He bent nearer, so that none but she could hear. "I will tell you all. It fits not with the dignity of your sorrow that you ...

— Sir Mortimer • Mary Johnston

Words linked to "Gallimaufry" : hotchpotch, assortment, miscellany, farrago, smorgasbord, variety, mishmash, mixed bag, motley, oddments, mingle-mangle, mixture, omnium-gatherum