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What (who) is miscellany - definition
miscellany
![The famous opening lines of ''[[A Tale of Two Cities]]'' in the periodical ''[[All the Year Round]]''](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/A Tale of Two Cities, Chapter 1, in All The Year Round.png?width=200 "The famous opening lines of ''[[A Tale of Two Cities]]'' in the periodical ''[[All the Year Round]]''")
![Miniature of [[Noah's Ark]] landing on the [[Mountains of Ararat]] (fol. 521a), from the 13th century [[North French Hebrew Miscellany]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ararat Ms. 11639 521a.jpg?width=200 "Miniature of [[Noah's Ark]] landing on the [[Mountains of Ararat]] (fol. 521a), from the 13th century [[North French Hebrew Miscellany]]")
![Frontispiece]] and [[title page]] to ''The Merry Thought: or, The Glass-Window and Bog-house Miscellany'',<ref>[http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/20535 ''The Merry Thought: or, The Glass-Window and Bog-house Miscellany'']</ref> which claimed to include "the Lucubrations of the Polite Part of the World, written upon walls, in Bog-Houses" such as the one at left of the tavern shown](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Bog House.jpg?width=200 "Frontispiece]] and [[title page]] to ''The Merry Thought: or, The Glass-Window and Bog-house Miscellany'',<ref>[http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/20535 ''The Merry Thought: or, The Glass-Window and Bog-house Miscellany'']</ref> which claimed to include \"the Lucubrations of the Polite Part of the World, written upon walls, in Bog-Houses\" such as the one at left of the tavern shown")
![Some miscellanies were even aimed at children, as ''[[A Little Pretty Pocket-Book]]'' (1744) demonstrates. It consists of rhymes and morals for each letter of the alphabet.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/NewberyBaseball.jpg?width=200 "Some miscellanies were even aimed at children, as ''[[A Little Pretty Pocket-Book]]'' (1744) demonstrates. It consists of rhymes and morals for each letter of the alphabet.")
!["muff"]].](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/On a Lady's Muff.jpg?width=200 "\"muff\"]].")
![Reliques]]''.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Relicsofanciente03perciala 0007.jpg?width=200 "Reliques]]''.")
![''The Devonshire Manuscript'']], 57r.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/The Devonshire Manuscript facsimile 57r LDev083.jpg?width=200 "''The Devonshire Manuscript'']], 57r.")
![[[Title page]] of [[Alexander Chalmers]]' ''Works of the English Poets'', volume 18.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Works of the English Poets, v. 18, title page.jpg?width=200 "[[Title page]] of [[Alexander Chalmers]]' ''Works of the English Poets'', volume 18.")
PUBLISHING TERM; COLLECTION OF VARIOUS PIECES OF WRITING BY DIFFERENT AUTHORS
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[m?'s?l?ni]
¦ noun (plural miscellanies) a mixture.
?a collection of pieces of writing by different authors.
Origin
C16: from Fr. miscellanees (fem. plural), from L. miscellanea (see miscellanea).
miscellany
PUBLISHING TERM; COLLECTION OF VARIOUS PIECES OF WRITING BY DIFFERENT AUTHORS
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(miscellanies)
A miscellany of things is a collection or group of many different kinds of things. (WRITTEN)
...glass cases filled with a miscellany of objects...
= assortment
N-COUNT: oft N of n
miscellany
PUBLISHING TERM; COLLECTION OF VARIOUS PIECES OF WRITING BY DIFFERENT AUTHORS
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n.
Mixture, medley, diversity, variety, olio, farrago, salmagundi, hodge-podge, hotch-potch, mish-mash, jumble, gallimaufry, miscellaneous collection, m?lange.
Wikipedia
Miscellany
A miscellany is a collection of various pieces of writing by different authors. Meaning a mixture, medley, or assortment, a [can include pieces on many subjects and in a variety of different forms].
Examples of use of miscellany
1. Is autism the new crime fiction, the new chick lit, the new miscellany?
2. Schott‘s Original Miscellany Ben Schott (2002) An idiosyncratic phenomenon, which Schott initially self–published in 2002, making only 50 copies.
3. EphemeraNow also features glimpses of post–war home Decor, and an extensive collection of consumer miscellany in its Advertorium.
4. Some of the more than 2 tons of miscellany that arrives every month consists of weapons, potential weapons and squirt guns.
5. Part miscellany, part homage, part pastiche, the brothers Conn and Hal Iggulden‘s bumper collection of Useful Skills, Ripping Yarns and Jolly Interesting Facts is already a publishing phenomenon.