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 (n): a collection containing a variety of sorts of things
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8 months ago chained_bear said:

We use this at work as the eighteenth-century word for what we today would call a salad (e.g. tossed salad, chicken salad, ham salad, egg salad, or hell, all of them jumbled up together).

about 1 year ago fbharjo said:

adds flavor

about 1 year ago reesetee said:

This always sounded to me like the name of the old Italian guy who lives down the street. :-)

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