melange

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melange

/məˈlɑnʒ/
/meɪ-/
/-ˈlɑndʒ/

Where it comes from

From French mélange, from Middle French mélange, meslange, from Old French meslance, meslinges (“set of diverse elements”), derived from mescler (“to mingle, mix up”) (modern French mêler), from Vulgar Latin *misculāre, from Latin misceō (“mix”) + -inges, a suffix from Frankish *-ingo (“-ing”). More at mix, -ing.

noun melanges · mélange

A mixture of different things; a disordered mixture. The room was a melange of comic books and posters.
Similar: assortment, farrago, hodgepodge, hotchpotch, mingle-mangle, mishmash, mixture, omnium-gatherum, ragbag
Coffee mixed with hot milk or whipped cream. —I'll take a mélange, Haines said to the waitress.
A large-scale breccia formed in the accretionary wedge over a subductional environment.

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noun collection containing a variety of miscellaneous things

Español	mezcolanza
Deutsch	Melange
Română	melanj
Русский	вся́кая вся́чина vsjákaja vsjáčina, мешани́на mešanína, сбо́рная соля́нка sbórnaja soljánka

noun Viennese coffee speciality

Deutsch	Melange

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@misc{melange_2026,
  title = {melange},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/melange},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}