Word Finder - medley

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Combat, fighting; a battle.

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A collection or mixture of miscellaneous things.

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a fruit medley

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A collection of related songs played or mixed together as a single piece.

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They played a medley of favorite folk songs as an encore.

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A competitive swimming event that combines the four strokes of butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke, and freestyle.

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A cloth of mixed colours.

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To combine, to form a medley.

After the Turks were driven from the city in 1878, it was in many respects modernized; but something of its former character is preserved in the ancient Turkish palace, mosque and fountain, the maze of winding alleys and picturesque houses in the older quarters, and, on market days, by the medley of peasant costumes - Bulgarian, Albanian and Rumanian, as well as Servian.

Judging by the accounts of those who saw it, and the fragmentary evidences which remain, the tumultuous medley of men -and horses, and the expressions of martial fury and despair, must have been conceived and rendered with a mastery not less commanding than had been the looks and gestures of bodeful sorrow and soul's perplexity among the quiet company on the convent wall at Milan.

Schollander might have won five gold medals, had the US entered him in the freestyle leg of the medley relay.

They have added dog sledding to their medley of winter activities.

Wonderfully silky in texture it offers a superbly exotic medley of ripe fruits.

The male's song is a medley of slightly wheezy warbling notes, usually sung from a perch in a tree.

Mid-Syria shows a medley of populations of more or less mixed origin, in large part alien, for which see Druses; Maronites and Lebanon.

It contains a medley of all sorts of legends and fables belonging to both the mythological and historical periods.

He possessed some oratorical ability and adopted a very theatrical style of elocution, "tuning his voice and balancing his hands"; and his addresses were a strange medley of solemnity and buffoonery, of clever wit and the wildest absurdity, of able and original disquisition and the worst artifices of the oratorical charlatan.

My partner 's pan-fried sea bream with lobster and champagne sauce was topped with caviar and again proved a delicate medley of flavors.

Past episodes have included musical guests such as the Pussycat Dolls, Burt Bachrach, Mary J Blige, Barry Manilow, Jesse McCartney and Bill Medley.

Asics Men's Medley Half Split Short comes in bright colors with a bright white side stripe.

The second Karaoke Revolution introduced Medley mode, where you can sing 3-5 short version of the songs in a row.

He continued to play for over 10 minutes with a medley of Super Mario Bros. music, though he shed the blindfold after the first song.

For dessert, try a fruit medley topped with whipped cream.

Their most popular mix is the 10 minute long Mega Man 2 medley.

A little sugar free syrup and a medley of fruit make a pancake a nutritious and healthy meal for anyone looking to watch their weight.

In this routine done to a Madonna medley, the precision required for a dance team to wow the audience is well illustrated.

Sundress Medley - Taylor comes with two sundresses; a white dress and a pink floral dress.

The thong strap is bejeweled with a medley of orange, aquamarine, green, pink and yellow stones on your choice of a white, brown or black shoe.

You can also make a medley of vegetables right in with the pickles.

Poodle Hat features "Couch Potato", Weird Al's take on Eminem's hit "Lose Yourself" and "Angry White Boy Polka", a medley of hard rock songs reimagined as polka tunes.

There is even a Weird Al radio station, where you can listen to a medley of Weird Al hits plus hear song parodies from other artists you may enjoy.

His largest philosophical work, at least so called, is the curious medley entitled Dictionnaire philosophique, which is compounded of the articles contributed by him to the great Encyclopedie and of several minor pieces.

He may be called the inventor of poetical satire, as he was the first to impress upon the rude inartistic medley, known to the Romans by the name of satura, that character of aggressive 1 "And so it happens that the whole life of the old man stands clearly before us, as if it were represented on a votive picture."

He may be regarded also as the inventor of Roman satire, in its original sense of a "medley" or "miscellany," although it was by Lucilius that the character of aggressive and censorious criticism of men and manners was first imparted to that form of literature.

Jews, Armenians, Bulgarians, Ruthenians and Greeks are also represented in the medley of peoples.

His Studenten-Briefe (Jena, 1842), a medley of letters and lyrics, are wholly conventional.

Stomatopoda.-ThiS order, at one time a medley of heterogeneous forms, is now confined to the singularly compact group of the Squillidae.

Strawberry Hill, the residence of Horace Walpole, was built to his taste in a medley of Gothic styles.

The great lawyers of the day, of whom Bracton is the most celebrated name, were spinning theories of its origin and development, studying Roman precedents, and turning the medley of half-understood Saxon and Norman customs into a system -

Tom Allen from the City of Chester won the bronze medal in the 400m Individual Medley more than three seconds inside his personal best.

The vegetable medley is six steamed green beans, six baby sweet corn and 12 baby carrots.

A medley of noises made the peaceful night hideous.

The six track album is a medley of cheerfully chilled pop infused rock anthems.

The children entertained some of the other children by playing the recorder and singing a medley of the Bardâs work.

They will even perform a Scottish medley to get any party in full swing.

Still messing with the set, I think we played the new medley, which was nice.

Each theme, or reel, featured a medley of tunes conveying various moods.

Tommy still includes a similar instrumental medley in the stage act.

Dodd is a relay swimmer, while Windsor competed in the 200m individual medley.

Breaking into British waters, he took the British Youth Champion title in the 400m individual medley this year.

Two weeks ago in Swansea he won the over - 40s national title for the 100m individual medley.

Swim 4 x 50 meters individual medley within 5 minutes.

Most Outstanding Contribution went to Duran Duran who then went onto remind us of all their classic hits in their 10 minute medley.

My partner's pan-fried sea bream with lobster and champagne sauce was topped with caviar and again proved a delicate medley of flavors.

All the other strangeness of the medley reads like nonsense.

The male 's song is a medley of slightly wheezy warbling notes, usually sung from a perch in a tree.

It's almost 20 minutes of pure piano bliss, combining tunes from the golden days of gaming into one long medley.

Perusing the store's medley of maternity and other suitable attire, you may find items like high-quality accessories, career and casual clothing, swimwear, jewelry as well as lingerie and undergarments.