| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| mélange |
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| SYLLABICATION: | mé·lange |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  m -lä zh |
| VARIANT FORMS: | also me·lange |
| NOUN: | A mixture: “[a] building crowned with a mélange of antennae and satellite dishes” (Howard Kaplan). | | ETYMOLOGY: | French, from Old French meslance, from mesler, to mix. See meddle.
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| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
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