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n.- A collection especially of miscellaneous items.

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  • But in the majority of cases there is no obvious excuse for this ‘omnium gatherum’ process.
  • It's an omnium gatherum of definitions, which I found helpful as I tried to refine my own definition.
  • The relic-hunters had penetrated their omnium gatherum and offered fabulous sums for the quaint old bits they found there.
  • And from the lips of another lady whose face she knew, she heard after she had passed, "Don't you think it's rather an omnium gatherum?"
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