Meaning of salmagundi | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A food consisting of chopped meat and pickled herring, with oil, vinegar, pepper, and onions.
   countable, uncountable
2. Hence, any mixture of various ingredients; an olio or medley; a potpourri; a miscellany.
   countable, uncountable

Examples

“Partly too it reflected the nature of Revolutionary politics throughout the 1790s, which was invariably a kind of inspired bricolage, which involved yoking together a wide range of pre-existent elements into an unanticipated and constantly changing salmagundi of political forms.”

“This is not, however, a mere salmagundi of alphabetical arcana.”

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