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Miscellany
/mɪsˈɛləni/
/ˈmɪsəˌɫeɪni/
Miscellany
[NOUN]1
a collection or assortment of different items or pieces of writing, often gathered together in a single volume or publication
2
a collection containing a variety of sorts of things
Examples
1. It's sort of a miscellany, a catch-all phrase.
2. So the Ketuvim, or the Writings, are really a miscellany.
3. The last section of the book, chapters 31 to 34, is a sort of miscellany of appendices.
4. From the tightly-packed arrangement of natural specimens and miscellany in the Wunderkammers, or cabinets of curiosity, of 16th and 17th century Europe, to paintings hung salon-style in the grand galleries of the Louver in the 19th century, and all the way to now, when the near-ubiquitous white cube is the display convention of choice.
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