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French
Etymology
Popularized by the 2002 film L'Auberge Espagnole.
Pronunciation
Noun
auberge espagnole f (plural auberges espagnoles)
- potlatch, potluck (shared meal consisting of whatever guests have brought)
- Synonym: repas-partage
- (by extension) hodgepodge; melting pot
2010 March 19, Jean-Claude Courbis Chambéry, “Auberge espagnole”, in Le Monde:Le résultat d’Europe Ecologie confirme une salutaire prise de conscience écologique, mais son recrutement est tellement hétéroclite qu’il ressemble de plus en plus à une auberge espagnole : on y trouve beaucoup plus de gauchistes libertaires et d’opportunistes que de véritables protecteurs de la nature.- The performance of Europe Ecologie is evidence of a beneficial increase in environmental awareness, but its recruitment is so broad that it is looking more and more like a free-for-all: it is home to many more opportunists and libertarian leftists than true protectors of nature.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see auberge, espagnole.
1843, Théophile Gautier, Voyage en Espagne:Nous n’avions pas encore tâté de l’auberge espagnole; les descriptions picaresques et fourmillantes de Don Quichotte et de Lazarille de Tormes nous revenaient en mémoire, et tout le corps nous démangeait rien que d’y songer.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)