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Assemblage   /əsˈɛmblədʒ/  /əsˈɛmblɪdʒ/   Listen
Assemblage

noun
1.
A group of persons together in one place.  Synonym: gathering.
2.
A system of components assembled together for a particular purpose.  Synonym: hookup.
3.
The social act of assembling.  Synonyms: assembly, gathering.
4.
Several things grouped together or considered as a whole.  Synonyms: accumulation, aggregation, collection.






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"Assemblage" Quotes from Famous Books



... and his white gloves, though white enough, had obviously been used and cleaned often. But the host observed, also, that Mr. Heatherbloom held himself well, said just the right thing to the hostess, and moved through the assemblage with quite the proper poise. He didn't look bored, neither did he appear overimpressed by the almost palatial elegance of the ball-room. He even managed to suppress any outward signs of elation at the sight of Miss Dalrymple with whom he had but the opportunity for a word or two, at first. ...
— A Man and His Money • Frederic Stewart Isham

... sky had partially cleared. Above the tents and the blazing fire some stars shone out benignly. A stillness and a pellucid clearness that were full of remote romance were making the vast desert their sacred possession. The aspect of the camp had changed. It was no longer a lurid and mysterious assemblage of men, animals, and tents, half revealed in the light of blown flames, half concealed by the black mantle of night, but a tranquil and restful picture of comfort and of repose, full of the quiet detail of feeding beasts, ...
— Bella Donna - A Novel • Robert Hichens

... assemblage had ears for her. The idea of an extension of motherhood, an organized, scientific supervision of children, made an appeal such as nothing else could. For, after all, persistently—almost irritatingly, at times—this great federation, which was supposed to concern ...
— The Precipice • Elia Wilkinson Peattie

... never been in a fashionable assemblage; she had never attended a theatre, as Mr Irving did not ...
— An Ambitious Man • Ella Wheeler Wilcox

... again for some years there was not even a trace of him. And when they did come together, when they did live together, what sort of life was hers! She suffered insult, even blows. She received her fondlings as a kind of alms; she felt herself a strange creature in this assemblage of wifeless knights, to whom the loose life of the Cossaks had given a coloring sombre enough. Youth flashed by her joylessly, and her beautiful fresh cheeks and fingers had withered away without kisses, and were covered with premature wrinkles. All her love, all her tenderness, ...
— Lectures on Russian Literature - Pushkin, Gogol, Turgenef, Tolstoy • Ivan Panin


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