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noun

Medley n. (pl. medleys)

A mixture; a mingled and confused mass of ingredients, usually inharmonious; a jumble; a hodgepodge; often used contemptuously. "This medley of philosophy and war." "Love is a medley of endearments, jars, Suspicions, reconcilements, wars."

The confusion of a hand to hand battle; a brisk, hand to hand engagement; a mêlée. (Obs.)

(Mus.) A composition of passages detached from several different compositions; a potpourri. Note: Medley is usually applied to vocal, potpourri to instrumental, compositions.

A cloth of mixed colors.

adjective

Medley adj.

Mixed; of mixed material or color. (Obs.) "A medlé coat."

Mingled; confused.

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Etymology of 'Medley'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... was long to him, but to me it was not. Noon and Cedar Springs prematurely ended the first half of this day most memorable in the whole medley of my excursion, and we got down to dine. Two travellers bound for Thomas by our same road were just setting out, but they firmly declined to transport our cook, and Pidcock moodily saw them depart ...

— Red Men and White • Owen Wister

... a box, half packed, with various articles of clothing lying by it. On the dressing-table was a whole medley of little feminine knick-knacks, with a candlestick in the midst, the dead wick still smoking in the socket, and accounting for the disappearance of the light a few minutes before. The fire had gone out, but on a chair by it was laid ...

— The Danvers Jewels, and Sir Charles Danvers • Mary Cholmondeley

... portions of the Roman empire, and with its hatred of human knowledge and degraded religious ideas and practices, had been adopted at last even in Italy. Not by the Romans, for they had ceased to exist, but by the medley of Goths and half-breeds, the occupants of that peninsula. Gregory the Great is the incarnation of the ideas of this debased population. That evil system, so carefully nurtured by Constantine and cherished by all the Oriental bishops, had been cut down by the axe ...

— History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume I (of 2) - Revised Edition • John William Draper

... playing cards or conversing among themselves, under the brilliant glare of the gilt chandeliers or the subdued light of the Chinese lanterns, which were brilliantly decorated with long silken tassels. On the walls there was a lamentable medley of landscapes in dim and gaudy colors, painted in Canton or Hongkong, mingled with tawdry chromos of odalisks, half-nude women, effeminate lithographs of Christ, the deaths of the just and of the sinners—made by Jewish houses in Germany to be sold in the Catholic countries. ...

— The Reign of Greed - Complete English Version of 'El Filibusterismo' • Jose Rizal

... seemed as if some commotion had arisen somewhere, and a medley of muffled voices was borne ...

— Katherine's Sheaves • Mrs. Georgie Sheldon

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