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motley
adjective
- of many colors or patches of color
- Rare wearing many-colored garments: a motley fool
- having or composed of many different or clashing elements; heterogeneous: a motley group
noun
- cloth of mixed colors
- Rare a garment of various colors, worn by a clown or jester
- Rare a fool or jester
- a combination of diverse or clashing elements
Motley,
John Lothrop 1814-77; U.S. historian & diplomat
See motley in American Heritage Dictionary 4
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