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Motley

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Noun

1. assortment, miscellanea, miscellany, mixed bag, mixture, motley, potpourri, salmagundi, smorgasbord, variety

a collection containing a variety of sorts of things

Example Sentences:
'a great assortment of cars was on display'
'he had a variety of disorders'
'a veritable smorgasbord of religions'

2. motley

a garment made of motley (especially a court jester's costume)

3. motley

a multicolored woolen fabric woven of mixed threads in 14th to 17th century England

Verb

4. motley, variegate, vary

make something more diverse and varied

Example Sentences:
'Vary the menu'

5. motley, parti-color

make motley; color with different colors

Adjective

6. assorted, miscellaneous, mixed, motley, sundry

consisting of a haphazard assortment of different kinds

Example Sentences:
'an arrangement of assorted spring flowers'
'assorted sizes'
'miscellaneous accessories'
'a mixed program of baroque and contemporary music'
'a motley crew'
'sundry sciences commonly known as social'

7. calico, motley, multi-color, multi-colored, multi-colour, multi-coloured, multicolor, multicolored, multicolour, multicoloured, painted, particolored, particoloured, piebald, pied, varicolored, varicoloured

having sections or patches colored differently and usually brightly

Example Sentences:
'a jester dressed in motley'
'the painted desert'
'a particolored dress'
'a piebald horse'
'pied daisies'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.


Motley

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adjective
1. 
made up of elements of varying type, quality, etc
2. 
multicoloured
noun
3. 
a motley collection or mixture
4. 
the particoloured attire of a jester
5. obsolete
a jester

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Motley

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ˈJohn Lothrop (ˈloʊθrəp ) ; lōˈt hrəp) 1814-77; U.S. historian & diplomat
adjective
1. 
of many colors or patches of color
2.  Rare
wearing many-colored garments
a motley fool
3. 
having or composed of many different or clashing elements; heterogeneous
a motley group
noun
4. 
cloth of mixed colors
5.  Rare
a garment of various colors, worn by a clown or jester
6.  Rare
a fool or jester
7. 
a combination of diverse or clashing elements

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Motley

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adj.
1. Having elements of great variety or incongruity; heterogeneous: a motley collection of students at the coffee shop.
2. Having many colors; variegated; parti-colored: a motley tunic.
n. pl. mot·leys
1. The parti-colored attire of a court jester.
2. A heterogeneous, often incongruous mixture of elements.

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