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‖ mélange, n.|melɑ̃ʒ|
Also 7 meslange, 7–9 melange.
[F. mélange mixture, f. mêler to mix: see meddle v.
Often written without accent, but (at least in sense 1) perh. always regarded as a foreign word.]
1. A mixture; usually, a congeries of heterogeneous elements or constituents, a medley.
1653J. Hall Paradoxes 112 The sweetnesses and killing languors of their eyes, the meslange and harmony of their colours. 1697Evelyn Numism. vi. 213 Many exquisitely wrought Vessels..of that precious Melange. 1711Lady M. W. Montagu Let. to Mrs. Hewet, A bad peace, people I love in disgrace [etc.]..I believe nobody ever had such a mélange before. 1729Swift Let. to Bolingbroke 21 Mar. in Pope's Wks. (1741) II. 85, I come from looking over the Melange above-written, and declare it to be a true copy of my present disposition. 1811Shelley Let. in Hogg Life I. 397 A strange melange of maddened stuff, which I wrote by the midnight moon last night. 1840B. E. Hill Pinch—of Snuff 33 The pleasant melange sold but a few years since as ‘The Speaker's’, is very different from ‘Lord Canterbury's Mixture’. 1859Gentl. Mag. June 606 He professes that the present Part is ‘taken from Usher, Ware [etc.]’, and a very curious melange he has made of it. 1887A. M. Brown Anim. Alkal. 36 The melange of ferricyanide and ferrochloride gives feebly the bluish tint.
2. a. A dress fabric of cotton chain and woollen weft (Knight Dict. Mech. Suppl. 1884). b. A kind of woollen yarn of mingled colours. Also attrib. and Comb.
1881Instr. Census Clerks (1885) 144/2 Mèlange Weaver—Woollen Cloth Manuf. 1886Daily News 20 Sept. 2/4 An active demand continues in twofold yarns, in mottles, and melanges. 1897Allbutt's Syst. Med. II. 551 If bales of dry wools and hairs were placed in steamers—as is done in the melange printing process—and submitted [etc.].
3. (See quot. 1935.)
1922Joyce Ulysses 245 I'll take a mélange, Haines said to the waitress... He sank two lumps of sugar deftly long⁓wise through the whipped cream. 1935H. Simpson Cold Table 264 Café Mélange. Ingredients: Coffee, milk; water; whipped cream; castor sugar. 1971Guardian 27 Feb. 7/4 The famous Viennese coffee houses where you can sip your melange (or a dozen other varieties of coffee). |