potpourri
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Valued for its lasting fragrance, sweet woodruff is used commercially in perfumes and natural potpourris.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 29, 2023
On a recent trip, he was finalizing items for his upcoming Limited home collection of fragrances, candles, potpourris, trays and tabletop accessories.
From Time Magazine Archive
Serious musicians and the president of the Society of Friends of the Concertgebouw were deemed expert enough to judge the power and precision of the grinders, their genius with operatic potpourris, popular marches, sentimental fluff.
From Time Magazine Archive
The average music-lover is prone to dwell upon him as the composer of Les Pr�ludes, the Hungarian Rhapsodies, and as the somewhat flashy transcriber of operatic potpourris, such as the Rigoletto Fantasie.
From Music: An Art and a Language by Spalding, Walter Raymond
In the summer of 1832 Wagner visited the city, but found himself greatly disappointed as he heard on all sides nothing but “Zampa,” and the potpourris of Strauss.
From Life of Wagner Biographies of Musicians by Nohl, Louis
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