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Definition of Hotchpotches
1. hotchpotch [n] - See also: hotchpotch
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hotchpotches
Literary usage of Hotchpotches
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. New Cosmopolis: A Book of Images. Intimate New York. Certain European Cities by James Huneker (1915)
"Stews, hotchpotches, meats smothered in onions, soups so thick that a spoon will
stand upright in them, sauerkraut, hot salads, sea food cooked with plenty ..."
2. Art in England During the Elizabethan and Stuart Periods by Aymer Vallance, Malcolm Charles Salaman (1908)
"... for the decoration of their prints those conventional hotchpotches of scroll
or strap work, blended with semi-nude human figures growing out of floral ..."
3. A Book about the Table by John Cordy Jeaffreson (1875)
"Where the mediaeval epicure had one joint, he had twenty " made dishes;" for
every whole creature that charmed his sight, there were a dozen hotchpotches to ..."
4. Letters of Wit, Politicks and Morality by Guido Bentivoglio, Antonio de Guevara, Aristaenetus, Roger de Rabutin Bussy, Fontenelle (Bernard Le Bovier) (1701)
"... of Nature is not entertaining e- nough, they make mixtures and hotchpotches
of various kinds, ..."
5. Chronicles of Fashion: From the Time of Elizabeth to the Early Part of the by Elizabeth Stone (1845)
"... as to be easily divisible with a spoon ; and certainly a great many of the
receipts of ancient cookery consist of hashes, stews, and hotchpotches. ..."
6. History of the Christian Church by Henry Stebbing (1834)
"And because the simplicity of nature is not entertaining enough, we make mixtures
and hotchpotches of different kinds, and by exquisite savours, ..."
7. Farriery Improv'd: Or, a Compleat Treatise Upon the Art of Farriery: Wherein by Henry Bracken (1745)
"... was it not for a long Tribe of ill-contriv'd Medicines, or rather hotchpotches,
forced into a ..."
8. Master Pierre Patelin: A Farce in Three Acts (1914)
"Those physicians have killed me with these hotchpotches they've made me drink.
And yet, to believe them, it's as simple as moulding wax. GUILLEMETTE. ..."
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