As a result, Afghanistan will remain what it was a violent and ungovernable tribal melange.

Next, I set out roach motels glue traps baited with a pheromone melange in each of these locations.

The second refers to the study of syncretisms between two cultures with different stages of formal expression, such as the melange of African folk beliefs and Roman Catholicism that led to the development of Vodun and Santería, and similar mixtures of formal religions with folk cultures.