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melange

/meɪˈlɑnʒ/
noun
  1. A mixture of different things; a disordered mixture.

    "The room was a melange of comic books and posters."

  2. A Viennese coffee speciality, half steamed milk and half coffee.

  3. A large-scale breccia formed in the accretionary wedge over a subductional environment.

Synonymsassortment, farrago, hodgepodge, hotchpotch, mingle-mangle, mishmash

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