medleys

Noun

medley (plural medleys)

1. (archaic) Combat, fighting; a battle.
   • Thenne came the kyng of Irland and the kynge of the stryete marches to rescowe syre Tristram and sire Palomydes / There beganne a grete medle / & many knyghtes were smyten doune on bothe partyes / and alweyes sir launcelot spared sir Tristram / and he spared hym1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “lxxj”, in Le Morte Darthur, book X
2. A collection or mixture of miscellaneous things.
   • a fruit medley

   Synonyms:

   macédoine

3. A collection of related songs played or mixed together as a single piece.
   • They played a medley of favorite folk songs as an encore.
4. A competitive swimming event that combines the four strokes of butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke, and freestyle.
5. A cloth of mixed colours.
   • Otherwise , as our Saviour noteth , when the old Cloth was joyned to the new , it made no good medley , but the Rent was made the wors1631, Thomas Fuller, Comment on Ruth , Chapter 1, verses 9, 10, 11

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