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gallimaufry

/gal-uh-maw-free/US // ˌgæl əˈmɔ fri //UK // (ˌɡælɪˈmɔːfrɪ) //

加里莫夫里,加里莫夫利,加里莫夫莱

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural gal·li·mau·fries.Chiefly Literary.

    • : a hodgepodge; jumble; confused medley.
    • : a ragout or hash.

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Examples

  • Another contemporary critic announces that “our English tongue was a gallimaufry or hodge-podge of all other speeches.”

  • To net a Millsborough gallimaufry of decadents, criminals, and potential rebels had become in a few hours his absorbing desire.

  • We are not at home to such gallimaufry as that; it is as much as my place is worth to denounce that there bonnet to our ladies.

  • They seemed to have been derived rather from a gallimaufry of familiar models.

  • All this jumble, this gallimaufry, I say, does not impair the spiritual worth of the play.