Sekirov Dictionary

medley

/ˈmɛdli/

noun 5
verb 1
forms 3

noun5

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A collection or mixture of miscellaneous things.
- Love is a medley of endearments, jars, / Suspicions, reconcilements, wars. — 1692
•
A collection of related songs played or mixed together as a single piece.
- They played a medley of favorite folk songs as an encore.
A competitive swimming event that combines the four strokes of butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke, and freestyle.
•
A cloth of mixed colours.
- Otherwise , as our Saviour noteth , when the old Cloth was joyned to the new , it made no good medley , but the Rent was made the wors — 1631
•
(no longer used) Combat, fighting; a battle.
- For greater shields they have, than that they can either doe or see ought, and being raunged by hundreds no doubt they will hinder one another in the medley, except some very few — 1632

verb1

To combine, to form a medley.

forms

medleyed · medleying · medleys

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