// Her favorite winter potpourri [ˌpoʊpʊˈriː] includes cinnamon sticks, cloves, and orange peel.

// The book is a potpourri [ˌpoʊpʊˈriː] of stories about family, community, and food.

potpourri [ˌpoʊpʊˈriː]
noun

Potpourri is a mixture of dried flower petals, leaves, and spices that is used to make a room smell pleasant. When used figuratively potpourri refers to a collection of various different things.

It was borrowed from French, where pot pourri translates directly as “putrid pot”; the French word was a translation of the Spanish olla podrida, which likewise means “rotten pot.”

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