melange

Meaning

Noun

• A mixture of different things; a disordered mixture.
• A Viennese coffee speciality, half steamed milk and half coffee.
• A large-scale breccia formed in the accretionary wedge over a subductional environment.

Related

Similar words

• assortment, farrago, hodgepodge, hotchpotch, mingle-mangle, mishmash, mixture, omnium-gatherum, ragbag

Origin

• From French mélange, from Middle French mélange, meslange, from Old French meslance, meslinges, derived from mescler (modern French mêler), from Vulgar Latin, from Latin misceō + -inges, a suffix from Frankish *-ingo. More at mix, -ing.