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Definition
a collection containing a variety of a sort of a thing
- The remainder of the garden presented a well-selected assortment of esculent vegetables, in a praiseworthy state of advancement.Chapter 6 — Maule's Well (9% in)
- Groceries, toy-shops, drygoods stores, with their immense panes of plate-glass, their gorgeous fixtures, their vast and complete assortments of merchandise, in which fortunes had been invested; and those noble mirrors at the farther end of each establishment, doubling all this wealth by a brightly burnished vista of unrealities!Chapter 3 — The First Customer (48% in)
There are no more uses of "assortment" in The House of the Seven Gables.
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