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Definition

a mixture of things

sometimes specifically:

a musical composition consisting of a series of songs or other musical pieces from various sources
a swimming race or relay in which different strokes are used

a medley of vegetables

medley = mixture

a medley of Christmas carols
Phelps also won the 200m individual medley.
The constant trampling of many feet, the harsh medley of many voices swelled into one dreadful sound.
Zane Grey -- The Heritage of the Desert
The medley of sounds got on young Willard's nerves.
Sherwood Anderson -- Winesburg, Ohio
When all the names have been read, a children's chorus sings a medley—"April Showers,"
Judy Blume -- In the Unlikely Event
He went through a medley of movie bits and they loved it.
Don DeLillo -- Underworld
Her sombre suit, of pronounced cut, caused her to appear a little out of place in the medley and bustle of a provincial fair.
Thomas Hardy -- Jude the Obscure
The place was a medley of shouting kids, beaming parents and rushed waiters.
Betty Smith -- A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
The lights, the chatter, the perfumes, the bewildering medley of color—he had, for a moment, the feeling of not being able to stand it.
Willa Cather -- Paul's Case
While the third syllable is in preparation, the band begins a nautical medley—"All in the Downs,"
William Makepeace Thackeray -- Vanity Fair
Unharness'd chariots stand along the shore: Amidst the wheels and reins, the goblet by, A medley of debauch and war, they lie.
Virgil -- The Aeneid
The mere sight of that medley of wet nakedness chilled him to the bone.
James Joyce -- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Like McCandless, figures of male authority aroused in me a confusing medley of corked fury and hunger to please.
Jon Krakauer -- Into the Wild
He began to snore again, achieving this time no zoolike medley but an all-out bombardment, as of a newsreel soundtrack of the siege of Stalingrad.
William Styron -- Sophie's Choice
A medley of crashing sounds came, louder than he had thought that sound could be: horns, sirens, screams.
Richard Wright -- Native Son
They were clad in an odd medley of garments, some in Englishmen's coats and jackets, others with bright blankets draping their shoulders.
Elizabeth George Speare -- The Sign of the Beaver
Emma wondered on what, of all the medley, she would fix.
Jane Austen -- Emma
Oh, I bet I'm just a medley of smells this morning.
Sara Gruen -- Water for Elephants
They have become background music, a Muzak medley of self-hatred themes.
Susanna Kaysen -- Girl Interrupted

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