varietyn.
/vəˈrʌɪᵻti/, U.S. /vəˈraɪədi/ a. Variation or change of fortune. Obsolete.
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the world > time > change > alternation > change of fortune > [noun]
foldingc1440
mail-wryc1475
varietya1533
volubility1609
a1533 Ld. Berners tr. A. de Guevara Golden Bk. M. Aurelius (1546) sig. G.viij The players and gesters suffered great varietee in the empyre, according to the diuersitee of emperours.
1617 F. Moryson Itinerary ii. 114 Our loose wings sometimes beating the rebels..and sometimes being driven by them back to our Colours..and this skirmish continuing with like varietie some three howers.
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the world > time > change > changeableness > [noun]
unstablenessc1340
varyingc1380
uncertaintyc1384
brotelnessc1386
were1390
instabilityc1422
bricklenessa1425
changeability?a1425
changeableness1447
vertibility1447
mutability?a1475
variableness?a1475
inconstance1509
mutationa1542
fickleness1548
variety1548
unconstancy1563
mobility1567
unstability1572
vicissitude1576
variousness1607
inconstancy1613
slipperinessa1618
alterableness1633
versatilousness1640
bottomlessness1642
lability1651
brittlety1652
versatileness1654
fluctuancy1659
fugitivenessa1661
alterability1661
permutability1662
unfixedness1668
mutablenessa1677
flittingnessa1680
frailness1687
flittiness1692
versability1721
plasticity1727
variability1771
unestablishment1776
fluctuabilitya1786
changefulness1791
unsettledness1799
versatility1802
harlequinism1808
fluidity1824
fitfulness1825
sensitiveness1825
insubstantiality1848
contingency1858
rootlessness1859
shiftingness1866
ficklety1888
variancy1888
impredicability1906
proteanism1909
1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VII f. xi Thinkyng surely that they..would neuer consent & longe agree with the Englishmen, accordyng to their olde vaffrous varietie.
1579 G. Fenton tr. F. Guicciardini Hist. Guicciardin viii. 432 This varietie (if notwithstanding it be possible in a Prince so inconstant to finde out the truth) many attributed to his credulitie & lightnes of belef.
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society > society and the community > dissent > [noun]
unsibeOE
unsaughta1122
un-i-sibc1275
conteckc1290
discordingc1325
distancec1325
discordance1340
dissensionc1384
batea1400
discordc1425
variancec1425
variationc1485
disgreement?1504
distinction1520
factiona1538
jar1546
variety1546
disagreeance1548
disagreeing1548
disagreement1548
misliking1564
odds1567
mislikea1586
discordancy1587
disagree1589
distancy1595
dissent1596
dislike1598
secting1598
dichostasy1606
fraction1609
dissentation1623
ill blood1624
misintelligence1632
clashing1642
misunderstanding1642
discomposure1659
disjointinga1715
uneasiness1744
friction1760
misunderstand1819
unharmony1866
inharmony1867
trouble at (the or t') mill1967
the mind > emotion > hatred > state of variance or disunion > [noun]
unsaughtnessa1000
unsaughta1122
schismc1425
variancec1425
variationc1485
variety1546
breach1745
strain1884
1546 J. Bale Actes Eng. Votaryes: 1st Pt. f. 68 After the decease of Kynge Edgare,..was a wonderfull varyete and scysme through out the whole realme.
2. Difference or discrepancy between things or in the same thing at different times.
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the world > relative properties > relationship > difference > [noun]
diversitya1340
difference1340
variancec1374
distancea1382
unlikenessa1387
variationc1405
discrepation?a1425
distinction1435
severaltyc1449
unlikelinessc1450
dissemblance1463
unlikelihood1483
alteritya1500
indifferencec1503
discrepancea1522
dissimilitude1532
differency1542
variety1552
discernment1570
disparitya1575
discrepancy1579
otherness1587
discernance1592
imparity1608
disanalogy1610
disresemblance1622
dislikeness1623
diff1624
inconformity1625
irresemblance1628
variousness1628
odds1642
disparation1654
aliety1656
disparility1656
disparateness1659
severality1664
nonconformity1672
unconformableness1712
dissimilarity1715
differentness1727
differ1787
allogeneitya1834
otherwiseness1890
otherliness1937
diversion-
1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Varietie in fourme, dissimilitudo.
1580 W. Fulke T. Stapleton & Martiall Confuted 197 The varietie in time that is in the witnesses of the inuention of the crosse.
1604 E. Grimeston tr. J. de Acosta Nat. & Morall Hist. Indies iii. xix. 180 Many, according to the varietie of their opinions, attribute this to diverse causes.
1629 H. Burton Truth's Triumph 245 The vulgar Latine..hath noted in the margin..in the variety of reading.
1654 E. Wolley tr. ‘G. de Scudéry’ Curia Politiæ 165 You cannot..but conclude..that my reasons are valid and strong for the variety of my different Conduct in such great Affairs.
1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson ii. x. 246 This..occasions a very remarkable variety in the manner of equipping her [sc. the ship] for these two different voyages.
1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth VI. 381 Upon examination, there will be less variety found between them than between birds that live upon land, and those that swim upon the water.
1861 F. A. Paley Æschylus' Prometheus (ed. 2) 591 (note) There is the same variety in 601, and the latter reading necessitates the questionable lengthening of α before πρ in 612.
3.
a. The fact, quality, or condition of being varied; diversity of nature or character; absence of monotony, sameness, or uniformity.
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the world > relative properties > relationship > variety > [noun]
manifoldnesseOE
serenessa1300
diversityc1340
sundernessc1390
diversenessa1400
seretya1400
variancea1400
sundryhead?a1425
sundrinessa1450
variety1548
multivariety1601
diversifying1611
inconstancy1646
heterogeneity1651
variousness1651
heterogeneousness1662
variegation1668
multifariousness1684
miscellaneousness1727
miscellaneity1778
versatility1802
omnifariousness1806
motleyness1819
many-headedness1847
heterology1854
unhomogeneity1862
diversitude1870
variedness1897
polycentricity1915
inhomogeneity1916
1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus 1 Cor. in Paraphr. New Test. xii. f. 34 The diuers placying and vse is not to the member reprochful, but this varietie rather apertayneth to the welth of the whole body.
1561 tr. J. Calvin Foure Godlye Serm. Idolatries iii. sig. G.i Although amonges men, there be soche a varietie & defference of myndes and desyres.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Antony & Cleopatra (1623) ii. ii. 242 Age cannot wither her, nor custome stale Her infinite variety . View more context for this quotation
1675 R. Burthogge Cavsa Dei 63 By Representing the Variety of Opinions about the thing whereon I now discourse.
1705 F. Fuller Medicina Gymnastica 4 They do not consider the wonderful Variety of the Disorders of Nature.
1843 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 6 108/1 The powerfulness, and variety of this splendid instrument.
1856 C. Kingsley Lett. (1878) I. 497 The perpetual variety of work which I have been in.
1860 J. B. Mozley Univ. Serm. vii. 156 We find ourselves surrounded by the greatest variety of character in the world.
b. Without article.
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1567 J. Maplet Greene Forest f. 27v It is to be maruelled how Dame Nature hath..for varietie sake so manifoldly varied and multiplied ye kindes of colours either simply died, and stained, or [etc.].
a1634 W. Austin Devotionis Augustinianæ Flamma (1635) 270 Therefore in Pleasures both Body and Soule desire with fulnesse of Pleasure to have fulnesse of variety.
a1680 S. Butler Genuine Remains (1759) I. 15 And she [Nature] affects so much to use Variety, in all she does.
a1721 M. Prior Ess. Opinion in Dialogues of Dead in Wks. (1907) II. 196 We judge of things according to the humour we are in and that very Humour is subject to infinite Variety.
1785 W. Cowper Task ii. 606 Variety's the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavour.
1827 B. Disraeli Vivian Grey III. v. iv. 84 Variety is the mother of Enjoyment.
1859 Habits Good Society xi. 312 A sensible man avoids variety in drinking.
1875 B. Jowett in tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) V. 14 There is a want of variety in the answers.
c. As a literary, musical, or artistic quality.
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society > leisure > the arts > the arts in general > [noun] > work of art > qualities generally
decoruma1568
humoura1568
variety1597
strength1608
uniformity1625
barbarity1644
freedom1645
boldness1677
correctness1684
clinquant1711
unity1712
contrast1713
meretriciousness1727
airiness1734
pathos1739
chastity1760
vigour1774
prettyism1789
mannerism1803
serio-comic1805
actuality1812
largeness1824
local colour1829
subjectivitya1834
idealism1841
pastoralism1842
inartisticalitya1849
academicism1852
realism1856
colour contrast1858
crampedness1858
niggling1858
audacity1859
superreality1859
literalism1860
pseudo-classicism1861
sensationalism1862
sensationism1862
chocolate box1865
pseudo-classicality1867
academism1871
actualism1872
academicalism1874
ethos1875
terribilità1877
local colouring1881
neoclassicism1893
mass effect1902
attack1905
verismo1908
kitsch1921
abstraction1923
self-consciousness1932
surreality1936
tension1941
build-up1942
sprezzatura1957
1597 T. Morley Plaine & Easie Introd. Musicke iii. 180 So that you must in your musicke be wauering like the wind, sometime wanton, sometime drooping,..and shew the verie vttermost of your varietie, and the more varietie you shew the better shal you please.
1622 H. Peacham Compl. Gentleman x. 86 Varietie, is various, and the rules of it so difficult, that to define or describe it, were as to draw one picture which should resemble all the faces in the world.
1622 H. Peacham Compl. Gentleman x. 86 To proceede further, were to translate Virgil himselfe; therefore hitherto of varietie.
1716 J. Perry State of Russia (title page) A Poeme enterlaced with much varietie and raritie.
1753 W. Hogarth Anal. Beauty ii. 16 How great a share variety has in producing beauty.
1843 J. Ruskin Mod. Painters I. 199 Variety is never so conspicuous, as when it is united with symmetry.
1870 A. C. Swinburne in Fortn. Rev. May 551 Variety is a rare and high quality, but poets of the first order have had little or none of it.
d. plural. A series or succession of different forms, conditions, etc.; variations.
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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > variety, etc. > [noun]
varieties1604
olio1688
burlesque1870
vaudeville1911
cine-variety1928
the world > time > change > [noun] > change within limits, variation, or modification > instance of > variations
varieties1604
1604 E. Grimeston tr. J. de Acosta Nat. & Morall Hist. Indies ii. viii. 100 We see great varieties in the yeere, which proceeds from the divers motions and aspects of Planets.
1668 A. Cowley Virgil's Georgics in Ess. in Verse & Prose 40 What makes the Sea retreat, and what advance: Varieties too regular for chance.
1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson ii. v. 180 I must..make a short digression on the heat and cold of different climates, and on the varieties which occur in the same place in different parts of the year.
1794 G. Adams Lect. Nat. & Exper. Philos. IV. xliv. 233 The great distance of..Saturn..[does] not permit us to distinguish the varieties of its surface.
1805 J. Foster Ess. i. i. 5 The varieties through which life has passed.
1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. ii. 167 He had passed through all varieties of fortune, and had seen both sides of human nature.
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the world > matter > colour > variegation > [noun]
variety1555
piedness1588
variegation1646
variegatedness1668
motleyness1819
chequering1847
mackereling1866
sparkiness1868
piebaldness1875
particolouring1880
piebaldism1881
piebalding1886
1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde i. i. f. 3v Hauyng three fethers entermengled with greene, yelowe, and purple, whiche varietie, deliteth the sense not a litle.
1609 Bible (Douay) I. Exod. xxvi. 31 Twisted silke, wrought with imbrodered worke and goodlie varietie.
1610 Bible (Douay) II. Ezek. xvii. 3 A great eagle with great winges..ful of feathers, and of varietie, came to Libanus.
5. Used as a collective to denote a number of things, qualities, etc., different or distinct in character; a varied assemblage, number, or quantity of something.In some instances hardly distinguishable from sense 3.
a. With the.
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the world > relative properties > relationship > variety > [noun] > a variety or varied assemblage
variety1553
heterogeny1838
ark-full1851
montage1934
smorgasbord1948
masala1970
1553 T. Wilson Arte Rhetorique (1580) 30 I might heape together the varietie of pleasures, which come by travaile.
1623 Heminge & Condell in 1st Folio Shaks. A 3 (heading) To the great Variety of Readers.
1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 186 Behold the varietie of temporary blessings.
1798 S. Lee Young Lady's Tale in H. Lee Canterbury Tales II. 164 The variety of simple scenes..made him delight to linger in Switzerland.
1851 W. B. Carpenter Man. Physiol. (ed. 2) 579 The variety of movements of which the hand of Man is capable.
b. Without article. ? Obsolete.
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1575 G. Fenton (title) Golden Epistles, contayning varietie of discourse, both morall, philosophicall, and divine, gathered as well out of the remainder of Guevaraes workes, and other authors.
1596 W. Warner Albions Eng. (rev. ed.) xi. lxvi. 280 Varietie of Men to court a Woman is her pride.
1680 R. Morden Geogr. Rectified (1685) 21 Bravely furnished with Variety of pleasant Orchards and Gardens.
c1791 Encycl. Brit. VIII. 541/1 Hindostan affords variety of beasts for carriage, as camels, dromedaries [etc.].
c. With a, that, etc.
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1708 W. Sewel Large Dict. Eng. & Dutch ii. at Verschiet There is no variety of goods; There's no choice to be had.
1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Vein In digging of Coal-Pits, they meet with a Variety of Veins.
1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth VIII. 197 He thus perceived a variety of kinds, almost equal to that variety of productions, which these little animals are seen to form.
1780 Mirror No. 77 From this circumstance..a variety of remarks might be made.
1863 P. Barry Dockyard Econ. 262 In consequence of the quality of the work executed, Messrs. Maudslay..have performed a great variety of smaller operations.
1871 B. Jowett in tr. Plato Dialogues I. 230 Like Proteus, he transforms himself into a variety of shapes.
1891 F. W. Farrar Darkness & Dawn I. xv. 131 To Nero..every man was sluggish and plebeian who did not care to season his recreation with a variety of vices.
d. With a plural verb.
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1718 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. 10 Apr. (1965) I. 397 For 20 miles together..the most Beautifull variety of Prospects present themselves.
1780 J. Bentham Introd. Princ. Morals & Legisl. (1789) xix. §24 Now of the infinite variety of nations there are upon earth, there are no two which agree exactly in their laws.
1840 A. Alison Hist. Europe from French Revol. VIII. lxi. 222 A variety of false attacks were immediately directed..against the ramparts.
1887 Science 10 115 A variety of hooks were used for different kinds of fish and according to the time of day.
6. attributive.1890 Hardwicke's Sci.-gossip 26 42 And what shall we say to some of our Latinised variety-names?
a. A different form of some thing, quality, or condition; something which differs or varies from others of the same class or kind; a kind or sort.Also without of: see (b).
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the world > relative properties > kind or sort > [noun] > a kind, sort, or class > a variety or particular form
form1543
edition1598
variety1617
mode1661
version1835
variation1863
phylum1945
(a)
(b)1642 J. Denham Cooper's Hill 12 Nature, whether more intent to please Us or her self, with strange varieties,..Wisely she knew the harmony of things.1682 N. Grew Idea Philos. Hist. Plants 3 in Anat. Plants For beholding the Many and Elegant Varieties, wherewith a Field or Garden is adorned.1779 Mirror No. 8 A good plain Mirror, intended to represent things just as they are, but with properties and varieties not to be met with in common glass.1825 T. Carlyle Life Schiller ii. 77 The task of composing dramatic varieties, of training players,..could not wholly occupy such a mind as his.1617 J. Taylor Three Weekes Observ. in Wks. (1630) 81/2 They haue strange torments and varieties of deaths, according to the various nature of the offences that are committed.
1639 S. Du Verger tr. J.-P. Camus Admirable Events To Rdr. sig. a vij Some good soules..will be glad to finde profitable admonitions..with varieties of pleasures fitting their humour.
1785 W. Cowper Tirocinium in Task 475 The spirit of that competition burns With all varieties of ill by turns. View more context for this quotation
1852 H. Rogers Eclipse of Faith 118 The distinction between the certain and the probable is felt to be far too important not to be marked by corresponding varieties of speech.
1860 J. B. Mozley Univ. Serm. (1877) vii. 156 Even the varieties of good character are almost infinite.
1873 P. G. Hamerton Intellect. Life i. iv. 22 The two lads represent two distinct varieties of human life.
b. Botany and Biology. A plant or animal differing from those of the species to which it belongs in some minor but permanent or transmissible particular; a group of such individuals constituting a sub-species or other subdivision of a species; also, a plant or animal which varies in some trivial respect from its immediate parent or type.
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the world > life > biology > taxonomy > taxon > [noun] > variety or sub-variety
variety1629
subvariety1827
1629 J. Parkinson Paradisi in Sole xxvi. 215 Many more sorts of varieties of these kindes there are, but these onely..are noursed vp in Florists Gardens for pleasure.
1721 J. Mortimer Whole Art Husb. (ed. 2) II. 217 To make Varieties of them, the Seeds of the best single ones..are to be sown in September.
1721 R. Bradley Philos. Acct. Wks. Nature 145 The Lady Cow, which has likewise its Varieties beautifully spotted with the gayest Colours.
1780 Encycl. Brit. VI. 4651/2 Tritæophya leipyria is only a variety of the tritæophya causus.
1832 R. Lander & J. Lander Jrnl. Exped. Niger II. viii. 10 Another variety of corn grows here, which has eight ears on a single stem.
1845 Florist's Jrnl. (1846) 6 206 For 12 old varieties in the nurserymen's class.
1859 C. Darwin Origin of Species i. 7 When we look to the individuals of the same variety or sub-variety of our older cultivated plants and animals.
1870 J. Yeats Nat. Hist. Commerce 6 A worker in wood will tell, from the texture and grain, not merely the species but the variety of tree.
c. So in the classification of inorganic substances or of diseases.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > [noun] > particular
variety1753
(a)
(b)1806 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 15 5 It is an inflammatory affection, but destitute of redness;..the name of phlegmasia alba, or white inflammation, will therefore sufficiently characterize this variety of it.1876 J. S. Bristowe Treat. Theory & Pract. Med. ii. iii. 413 The various forms of intercurrent or secondary pneumonia, and..the lobular variety of the disease.1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. (at cited word) The naturalists of former ages have run into great errors, in mistaking the accidental varieties of plants, animals, and minerals for distinct species.
1757 E. M. da Costa Nat. Hist. Fossils 134 The sand-stone,..exhibited by Woodward,..is only a variety of this kind.
1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 619 Verona green is merely a variety of the mineral called green earth.
1855 J. Phillips Man. Geol. 204 The coal is partly ‘splint’,..partly of the ‘cannel’ or ‘parrot’ variety.
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the world > relative properties > relationship > variety > [noun] > miscellaneous things
short end1560
threads and thrums1600
varieties1624
giblet1638
thrum1648
scrip-scrap1711
sundries1711
odds and ends1761
oddment1821
odd-come-short1836
what-nota1861
flotsam1861
odds and sods1921
odds and bobs1957
1624 in W. Foster Eng. Factories India 1624–9 (1909) 28 What~soever goods or varietyes be brought in by the English.
8. elliptical for variety performance (see Compounds b). Also, this species of entertainment, including its presentation on radio and television.
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1904 Daily Chron. 22 Oct. 7/4 At the Hippodrome, four more ‘legits’ make their first appearance in ‘variety’.
1908 Stage Year Bk. 26 Some provincial theatres have gone over entirely to variety.
1929 Illustr. London News 13 Apr. 609/1 (caption) Broadcasting variety from 2LO.
1967 Stage 2 Mar. 3/4 Variety makes a comeback to Edinburgh on Monday.
1977 J. Fleming Every Inch a Lady iii. v. 134 He realized..that variety was not..on the way out. It was..very much alive.
Compounds
attributive.
a. variety shop or store, one in which small goods of various kinds are sold; a general store. North American (originally U.S.).
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society > trade and finance > trading place > place where retail transactions made > [noun] > shop > general store
general shop1803
variety shop or store1824
general store1827
winkel1827
tienda1844
1768 Boston Evening Post 21 Nov. 3/3 Just imported in the Bristol Packet..and to be Sold by William Jackson At his Variety Store,..Nails, Brads, and Tacks of all sorts.
1790 Columbian Centinel (Boston) 15 Sept. 4/2 To be sold, at J. Brazer's Variety-store,..Holland Gin, of the best kind, in cases.
1824 ‘A. Singleton’ Lett. from South & West 84 One indication of a new country is that the shops are variety-shops; each one keeping piece-goods, groceries, cutlery, porcelain, and stationary [sic] in different corners.
1829 in Thornton Amer. Gloss. [The collected trumpery] gives the Mayor's office the appearance of a ‘variety store’.
1842 C. M. Kirkland Forest Life I. xv. 149 A ‘variety store’, offering for sale every possible article of merchandise, from lace gloves to goose-yokes [etc.].
1884 Harper's Mag. Nov. 888/1 One of them walked gauntly down to the post-office in the corner of the variety store.
1965 H. Hood in R. Weaver Canad. Short Stories (1968) 2nd Ser. 218 We proceeded to the general store, grocery store, variety store, butcher shop, what would you call it?
1975 Weekend Mag. (Montreal) 1 Nov. 25/1 Variety store owners just grin and bear the hockey card mania.
b. Used to designate music-hall or theatrical entertainments of a mixed character (songs, dances, impersonations, etc.). Also applied to things or persons connected with such entertainments.
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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > variety, etc. > [adjective]
variety1868
music hall1870
vaudevillian1930
vaude1933
1868 Oregon State Jrnl. 17 Oct. 3/1 Variety Troupe.—This troupe gave an entertainment in the Court House.
1878 Appletons' Jrnl. 19 36/2 A ‘music-hall’, a place of entertainment like that which we call a ‘variety theatre’ in America.
1882 A. E. Sweet & J. A. Knox Sketches from Texas Siftings 38 Do you think I am the advance agent of a variety show?
1886 Referee 25 Mar. (Cassell's) The biggest variety company ever seen at the East-end of London.
1891 Chambers's Jrnl. 14 Mar. 165/1 Music halls, or, to give them the more recent and appropriate term, variety shows, are quite modern institutions.
1892 Daily News 25 Mar. 2/2 The high salaries paid to variety artists.
1894 ‘M. O'Rell’ John Bull & Co. 200 A succession of songs and dances in costume, commonly called Variety Shows.
1895 C. D. Stuart & A. J. Park (title) The variety stage.
1908 Stage Year Bk. 26 They are now an integral part of variety performances.
1908 Stage Year Bk. 26 Theatres need the latter [licence] for the variety weeks and even extended variety seasons.
1911 G. B. Shaw in Daily Graphic 2 Dec. 4/3 Do I mind having my play performed in a variety theatre?
1926 G. B. Shaw Translations & Tomfooleries 232 This is not a serious play: it is what is called a Variety Turn for two musicians.
1967 Stage 2 Mar. 3/4 A new variety-revue opens at the Palladium Theatre.
1982 C. Castle Folies Bergère ii. 60 Provincial English variety theatres before World War Two.
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Philately. A set or group of postage stamps which differs slightly from other stamps of the same issue in terms of colour, paper, etc., spec. as a result of deliberate action taken during production (cf. error n. Additions); an individual stamp belonging to such a group.
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society > communication > correspondence > postal services > payment for postage > [noun] > postage stamp > differing set or group of
variety1863
1863 Stamp-collector's Mag. 1 178/2 The ½-baj. Roman is printed in three distinct colours, forming three marked varieties.
1870 Stamp-collector's Mag. 8 45/1 The discussion as to the Bergedorf error has caused us to ask ourselves the question—are varieties of this kind worthy of a place in our albums?
1911 F. J. Melville Chats on Postage Stamps 49 Se tenant.—A French expression signifying that the stamps referred to have not been separated: usually employed in reference to an error, or variety.
1971 D. Potter Brit. Elizabethan Stamps xiv. 159 Collectors tend to use the words variety and error indiscriminately.
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variety meat n. originally U.S. = offal n. 2a; a piece or type of offal (usually in plural).
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the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > part or joint of animal > [noun] > pluck, offal, or tripe
tripea1300
numblesc1330
tripea1400
chitterling?c1400
giblet14..
hasletc1400
umbles14..
womb cloutc1400
garbage1422
offala1425
interlardc1440
hinge1469
draught?a1475
mugget1481
paunch1512
purtenance1530
pertinence1535
chawdron1578
menudes1585
humblesa1592
gut?1602
pluck1611
sheep's-pluck1611
fifth quarter1679
trail1764
fry1847
chitling1869
small goods1874
black tripe1937
variety meat1942
1942 Los Angeles Times 27 Jan. ii. 6/6 Variety meats will be glorified by Miss Manners.
1953 Sci. News Let. 63 244/2 Use..liver and variety meat in two days.
2004 Times Lit. Suppl. 8 Oct. 30/2 This book does..look squarely and unsentimentally at ‘variety meats’.
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