salmagundi

[ sal-muh-guhn-dee ]
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noun
  1. a mixed dish consisting usually of cubed poultry or fish, chopped meat, anchovies, eggs, onions, oil, etc., often served as a salad.

  2. any mixture or miscellany.

Origin of salmagundi

1
1665–75; <Middle French salmingondin (later salmigondis), compound based on salemine salted food (see salami) and condir to season (see condiment)

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How to use salmagundi in a sentence

  • I called it the salmagundi, which means anything made out of spare parts.

    Little Brother | Cory Doctorow
  • A feeling crept over me, one not unlike the feeling I'd had when I realized that they'd turned poor old salmagundi into a traitor.

    Little Brother | Cory Doctorow
  • They had caviare now, and salmagundi, and sausage and cheese, besides salad and fruit and biscuit and cake.

    Hans Brinker | Mary Mapes Dodge
  • I'm glad I didn't, though a lot of the salmagundi men go over there and like it.

    Kenny | Leona Dalrymple
  • "Oh, that's the place where the salmagundi Club used to meet," cried Hanny, with eager interest.

    A Little Girl of Long Ago | Amanda Millie Douglas

British Dictionary definitions for salmagundi

salmagundi

salmagundy

/ (ˌsælməˈɡʌndɪ) /


noun
  1. a mixed salad dish of cooked meats, eggs, beetroot, etc, popular in 18th-century England

  2. a miscellany; potpourri

Origin of salmagundi

1
C17: from French salmigondis, perhaps from Italian salami conditi pickled salami

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