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Mishmash of a "Jeopardy!" category
Answer for the clue "Mishmash of a "Jeopardy!" category ", 9 letters:
potpourri
Alternative clues for the word potpourri
- One of the top ten "Jeopardy!" categories [8-15]
- Mixed collection up prior to reshuffle
- Move up, prior to creating miscellany
- Bowl or jar of fragrant petals and spices
- Mixed bag — rip up root (anag)
- A little of everything, on 'Jeopardy!'
- Award for French state is an aromatic assortment
- Mixture (of flower petals and spices?)
Word definitions for potpourri in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also pot-pourri , 1610s, "mixed meats served in a stew," from French pot pourri "stew," literally "rotten pot" (loan-translation of Spanish olla podrida ), from pourri, past participle of pourrir "to rot," from Vulgar Latin *putrire , from Latin putrescere ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Potpourri is the 1981 third album of Japanese band P-Model .
Usage examples of potpourri.
Martha, who was gathering Tellicherry peppercorns, orrisroot powder, bayberry bark, senna pods, lemon verbena and rosehips from her backyard for potpourri.
This potpourri of grease and onion and cheese and charbroiled meat had already flooded the room with a delicious melange of aromas.
At the moment, it was covered with herbs, packaged for potpourri, for tea and for culinary uses, as well as several tubes of ointments and a number of ceramic canisters.
Sword in hand he gazed around the cabin, only vaguely aware of the rich tapestries and silver vessels filled with sweetmeats, dried fruits and potpourri.
Pot holders and dish towels sported rooster designs, and in a colorful, hand-painted bowl was the essential orange-scented potpourri.
They ran up a narrow, picturesque street, with flower boxes in the windows and old women selling a few wares on their doorsteps, from tatted lace shawls to homemade potpourri.
I have such a potpourri, Cap - photos, tapes, Xerox copies of documents that would make the blood of our good friend John Q. Public run cold.
I have such a potpourri, Cap-photos, tapes, Xerox copies of documents that would make the blood of our good friend John Q. Public run cold.
There were a half dozen of them, filled with sacks of potpourri, bottles of oils and creams, beribboned sachets, satiny sleep pillows and a month's supply of special orders that ran from tonics to personalized perfumes.