Word of the Day - Melange

[debodun]

Melange (noun) - a mixture of dissimilar items.

The art museum had a melange of works on display from classical to modern art.

 

[Pappy]

A good place to find a melange of items is in a antique shop.

 

[jujube]

A word that came from "melange" is "Melungeon", which referred to the people of North Carolina and Virginia who were of mixed blood, usually White, Black and Cherokee.

My great-grandmother was a Melungeon.

 

[David777]

The general term melange has also been appropriated by geology science as a narrower term:

Mélange - Wikipedia

In geology, a mélange is a large-scale breccia, a mapable body of rock characterized by a lack of continuous bedding and the inclusion of fragments of rock of all sizes, contained in a fine-grained deformed matrix...
Examples include the Franciscan Complex along the Coast Ranges of central and northern California and the Bay of Islands ophiolite complex in Newfoundland...

Our region has Franciscan Complex mélange rocks along a few of our Pacific Ocean shores where myriad varieties of colorful rocks erode out of coastal bluff rocky shores and then are smoothed and polished by surf action, providing amazing photography subjects. I have a significant body of valuable close-up work of such wet by surf stones that I've not yet made public and of which other photographers have yet to take notice because the shores have not yet been exposed by social media.

Downsized for web version from 6150 by 4100 pixel full originals. The aesthetic is much more evident at full image size showing fine detail as I focus stack blend shots at F5.0, the lens sharpest aperture.

A 100% pixels crop:

 

[Bretrick]

There is a melange of native trees in western australia

 

[horseless carriage]

Melange, often referred to as "the spice", is the fictional psychedelic drug central to the Dune series of science fiction novels by Frank Herbert and derivative works.
In the series, the most essential and valuable commodity in the universe is melange, a drug that gives the user a longer life span, greater vitality, and heightened awareness. In some humans, the spice can also unlock prescience, a form of precognition based in genetics but made possible by use of the drug in larger dosages. Among other functions, prescience makes safe and accurate interstellar travel possible.

 

[Bretrick]

Melange, often referred to as "the spice", is the fictional psychedelic drug central to the Dune series of science fiction novels by Frank Herbert and derivative works.
In the series, the most essential and valuable commodity in the universe is melange, a drug that gives the user a longer life span, greater vitality, and heightened awareness. In some humans, the spice can also unlock prescience, a form of precognition based in genetics but made possible by use of the drug in larger dosages. Among other functions, prescience makes safe and accurate interstellar travel possible.

He who controls the Spice, controls the Universe

 

[John cycling]

I used to love the lemon melange pie that my Mom made.