Definition of "assemblage" noun countable and uncountable , plural assemblages
A gathering of people . quotations examples
Quotations But scarce was supper well over , before a change so incredible was wrought in me , such violent , yet pleasingly irksome sensations took possession of me that I scarce knew how to contain myself ; the smart of the lashes was now converted into such a prickly heat , such fiery tinglings , as made me sigh , squeeze my thighs together , shift and wriggle about my seat , with a furious restlessness ; whilst these itching ardours , thus excited in those parts on which the storm of discipline had principally fallen , detached legions of burning , subtile , stimulating spirits , to their opposite spot and centre of assemblage , where their titillation raged so furiously , that I was even stinging mad with them .
1749, [John Cleland], “(Please specify the letter or volume)”, in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [Fanny Hill], London: […] G. Fenton [i.e., Fenton and Ralph Griffiths] […]
Carried somehow , somewhither , for some reason , on these surging floods , were these travelers , […]. Even such a boat as the Mount Vernon offered a total deck space so cramped as to leave secrecy or privacy well out of the question , even had the motley and democratic assemblage of passengers been disposed to accord either .
1910, Emerson Hough, chapter II, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company