omnium gatherum
Example Sentences
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But maybe something about hustle, from its 1972 origins in the resilient youth of the battered South Bronx to the omnium-gatherum dance floors of 2023, deserves the title.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 27, 2023
Volume VI, an index and omnium-gatherum, was prefaced by Mr. Stokes’s apology to subscribers for the 13-year duration of the project.
From New York Times • Oct. 28, 2015
But isn’t a handbag sometimes just a handbag, rather than an omnium-gatherum?
From Slate • Sep. 11, 2014
His multilayered sound collage is an omnium-gatherum that includes — among much else — running water, traffic, babies crying and a variety of Irish traditional music.
From New York Times • Dec. 8, 2011
On the other hand, Adolphine's house, in spite of all her wishes and endeavours, had never been anything more than an omnium-gatherum, a rubbish heap.
From Small Souls by Couperus, Louis
