Mixture (French)

Usage examples of melange.

In addition to the coxcomb, therefore, the Fool wears a costume of rough varicolored wool, so that he is a melange of patched colors.

Zensunni fanatics like Naib Dhartha, the income from melange was substantial.

The air of the place was a marvelous melange of the smell of old but clean clothes, cleaning-fluid, phantom scents, patchouli potpourri, joss-sticks permanently burning, and the occasional cigarette surreptitiously smoked by the girl at the till.

Through his access to Rossak pharmaceuticals, Arrakis melange, and glowglobe and suspensor products invented by dear Norma, he had leveraged his advantages as much as possible, which pleased him immensely.

Some were science fiction, others fantasy, and still others straight weirdies, but one and all they were the most insane melange of cockeyed humor the fantasy magazines had ever seen.

The trade in melange had increased exponentially as its use spread throughout the League, and each spice run practically paid the entire cost of one of the spacefolder cargo ships.

In place of the Yang Diamond sat a polyglot, polyfunctional melange of industries, the Hong Kong of the 26th century.

Pavement deicing equipment had kicked in, adding clouds of steam to the atmospheric melange.

Jesse thought of their hardships, feeling guilt because finally his teams were hauling in huge melange harvests, yet he had to pretend to be poor.

He moved as much melange and pharmaceuticals as he could, set up partnerships to stockpile nonperishable goods, and sheltered his income so that VenKee Enterprises could survive the impending loss of the shipyards.

She danced through an eclectic melange of sound that comfortably encompassed Offenbach and Elton John.

This potpourri of grease and onion and cheese and charbroiled meat had already flooded the room with a delicious melange of aromas.

Spies were ev'rywhere, some working for this redoubtable Lady, with her Jansenists and Philosopher, others for Parties whose Fortunes would have intermesh'd more and less naturally with those of any Flying Automaton, the Jesuits, of course, the British, the Prussian Military, along with Detectives upon missions Bourbon and Orleanist, Corsican Adventurers, Martinist Illuminati, a Grand Melange of Motive As no one was what he, and, for the most part delightfully, she, claim'd, no one told or expected the truth.

The desert and the jackals of Jacurutu with their overdoses of melange and their constant betrayals.

But when Calhoun switched on the outside microphones a faint, sweet melange of high-pitched chirpings came from tiny creatures hidden under the vegetation of the mountainsides.