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Meaning of GALLIMAUFRY

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Gal`li*mau"fry\, n.; pl. {Gallimaufries}. [F.
galimafr['e]e a sort of ragout or mixed hash of different
meats.]
1. A hash of various kinds of meats, a ragout.
         Delighting in hodge-podge, gallimaufries, forced
         meat.                                 --King.
2. Any absurd medley; a hotchpotch.
         The Mahometan religion, which, being a gallimaufry
         made up of many, partakes much of the Jewish.
                                               --South.
 

 

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