Noun: potpourri
| Singular | potpourri |
| Plural | potpourris |
Sample Sentences
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A convention of sorts, the evening was an exciting potpourri of education, entertainment and political consciousness. [1977 December 24, Richard Burns, “It Was a 'Big Splash' at The Aquarium”, in Gay Community News, volume 5, number 25, page 9:]
Nouns inflected like potpourri
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From French pot-pourri (“stew, potpourri”), a calque of Spanish olla podrida (“stew”, literally “rotten pot”). Doublet of olla podrida. See: French Nouns '
pot-pourri', Spanish Nouns '
olla podrida'.