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gallimaufry

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11 lettersPronunciation /ɡa.lɪˈmɔː.fɹi/Part of speech nounSorted aafgillmruyStarts with GEnds with Y0 clues
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Definitions

  1. a motley assortment of things

Word origin

From French galimafrée, from Old French calimafree (“stew of various kinds of meats”); further etymology uncertain, but possibly from a combination of Old French galer (“to have fun, to enjoy oneself”) and Old Northern French (Picard) mafrer (“to eat gluttonously”).

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  • [William] Shakespeare's early comedies are a gallimaufry of experiments, but each plays its part in the gradual conquest of the medium, the increasing mastery of its complex expressive capacities.
  • A gallimaufry of minimal action and maximal thought, this is a creditable stab at writing the Great American novel.
  • […] what students are taught instead is a gallimaufry of "texts".

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