The Collaborative International Dictionary
Gallimaufry \Gal`li*mau"fry\, n.; pl. Gallimaufries. [F. galimafr['e]e a sort of ragout or mixed hash of different meats.]
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A hash of various kinds of meats, a ragout.
Delighting in hodge-podge, gallimaufries, forced meat.
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Any absurd medley; a hotchpotch.
The Mahometan religion, which, being a gallimaufry made up of many, partakes much of the Jewish.
--South.
Wiktionary
n. (plural of gallimaufry English)
Usage examples of "gallimaufries".
If he's in the Gallimaufries and you give me the name, I can find him.
Earl Dexter, pressed for information upon his return from the Gallimaufries, might as well have taken a vow of silence.
Anyone who reached a position of power in the Gallimaufries faced danger every day.
For a man who had spent the past two decades in Earth's Gallimaufries, that was almost an invitation.
The difference is, the Gallimaufries used to be the worst place in the solar system.
Next thing I knew I was in a labor camp in the Gallimaufries where the drug of preference was Velocil.