miscellanea

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The miscellanea included twisted wood, yellowed newspaper clippings, a Russian verb finder and piles of paintings.

From New York Times • Jan. 26, 2024

With immense skill, Delbourgo mines Sloane's vast correspondence to uncover the global networks on which he relied to accumulate miscellanea.

From Nature • May 23, 2017

These writings did not describe the miscellanea of court life – instead, they were the ur-texts of Chinese culture.

From The Guardian • Jun. 8, 2016

Later, he remembers the day an antiquarian in Barcelona called him to say there was an orphaned box of Cuban miscellanea that was available.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 15, 2013

The latest editor of the heedless philosopher has certainly done right in placing among his miscellanea the declamatory apostrophe which sums up the teachings of this remorseless book.

From Diderot and the Encyclopædists Volume II. by Morley, John