medley

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   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 hym.

2. 2
   noun

   A collection or mixture of miscellaneous things.

   A fruit medley.

3. 3
   noun

   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. 4
   noun

   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 wors.

From Middle English medle, from Anglo-Norman medlee, Old French medlee, from the feminine past participle of early Medieval Latin misculō (“to mix”). Compare meddle. Doublet of melee.

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