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Salmagundi

noun

A collection containing a variety of sorts of things. Synonyms: assortment, miscellanea, miscellany, mixed bag, mixture, motley, potpourri, smorgasbord, variety. "He had a variety of disorders" , "A veritable smorgasbord of religions"

Cooked meats and eggs and vegetables usually arranged in rows around the plate and dressed with a salad dressing.

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"Salmagundi" Quotes from Famous Books

... Orange cream Raspberry cream Tea cream Sago cream Barley cream Gooseberry fool To make slip Curds and cream Blanc mange To make a hen's nest Pheasants a-la-daub Partridges a-la-daub Chickens a-la-daub To make savoury jelly Turkey a-la-daub Salmagundi An excellent relish after dinner To ...

— The Virginia Housewife • Mary Randolph

... heard the first note of alarm. New England is gaining; "with such rivalry Philadelphia must yield the proud title which she has borne, or rouse from the withering lethargy in which she slumbers." New York jealousy is increasing. In 1820 Salmagundi says that "one of the editors of the Port Folio was discharged—for writing common-sense." These trifles indicate a shifting of the balance of power. Three years more, and the cry of discontent and peevish querulousness ...

— The Philadelphia Magazines and their Contributors 1741-1850 • Albert Smyth

... club matter. I didn't see him again for nearly a month; and though I searched and sent, I couldn't get his trail. On opening day at Morris Park, I was going along the passage behind the boxes in the grand stand, on my way to the paddock. I wanted to see my horse that was about to run for the Salmagundi Sweepstakes, and to tell my jockey that I'd give him fifteen thousand, instead of ten thousand, if he won—for I had put quite a bunch down. I was a figure at the tracks in those days. I went into racing on my customary generous scale. I liked horses, just as ...

— The Deluge • David Graham Phillips

... sake, forbear the description!" said Smith; "thy words overpower the perfumes, and flavour the apartment like a dish of salmagundi!" ...

— Peveril of the Peak • Sir Walter Scott

... of September 20 to his parents he says: "I endeavor to be as economical as possible and am getting into the habit very fast. It must be learned by degrees. I shall not say, as Salmagundi says,—'I shall spare no expense in discovering the most economical way of spending money,' but shall ...

— Samuel F. B. Morse, His Letters and Journals - In Two Volumes, Volume I. • Samuel F. B. Morse