potpourri
IPA: poʊpʊrˈi
noun
- A collection of various things; an assortment, mixed bag or motley.
- An anthology of miscellaneous prose.
- (music) A medley of songs or music.
- A mixture of dried fragrant plant material, often in a decorative bowl, used to scent a room.
- A ragout or stew of meat and vegetables.
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Examples of "potpourri" in Sentences
- I'm not good with potpourri, though.
- He bought a potpourri bottle in a market.
- If so, I'm gonna get myself some potpourri.
- It's a potpourri of aspects loosely bundled.
- It is used in flower arrangements, perfumes and potpourri.
- The membership roster is a diverse and surprising potpourri.
- The French call it potpourri because that means "rotten pot."
- The flowers and leaves are good ingredients for potpourri making.
- A veritable potpourri of religious ideas, bound to cause confusion.
- Often a potpourri included a set of variations on a selected flowers.
- Nowadays, they are popular in craft projects and as potpourri ingredients.
- Wipe out with a damp paper towel, much easier than loose potpourri is to clean.
- Right into the hands of what I refer to as the potpourri of global scum, Braun told
- What is best described as a potpourri of opportunities for artist to share their talent,
- He told officers he'd been smoking "potpourri," apparently referring to an herbal substance meant to produce feelings similar to that of marijuana.
- What she didn't mention was that I'd come from Italy and I had all these bags of an herbal mixture called potpourri, which I'd got from the Pharmacia de Santa Berria
- The covers are endlessly fascinating, especially the "potpourri" section. "potpourri" indeed, everything from William Burroughs to Frank Edwards to G. Harry Stine to endless historical potboilers and nurse novels.
- Trivia note -- book D-292 under "potpourri" -- THE INSIDERS by Booth Mooney: Mooney wound up in Washington as an aide to LBJ and a lobbyist, but Robert E. Howard fans know him better as one of REH's youthful amateur-press associates in Texas in the '20s.
- Chatting with me in the Perelman's café, Joseph Rishel, the museum's senior curator of European painting, told me that he'd like to see a future "potpourri" exhibition in that space, drawing cross-cultural connections among diverse permanent-collection works from around the world.