Definition of "jumble-sale" []

• A sale of secondhand articles of every description for the benefit of the poor; a rummage sale. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "We would dress up in our favourite jumble-sale finds: you put on your 1930's style gangster suit, double-breasted, enormous lapels and wide flappy trousers."
• "Annabel Scholey is too pleasing as Lady Anne: when she loses her temper, she doesn't so much curse as mellifluously express herself, but Gemma Jones's Queen Margaret is impressive: a glowering, dogged presence who hovers as a constant reproach in her jumble-sale coat and uncombed hair."
• "Sotheby's two-day auction of sporting memorabilia concludes today with 335 lots on offer, ranging from such amiably humdrum jumble-sale tat as Mark Ilott's 1995 England touring cap (guide price £135) and a pair of Will Greenwood's white rugby shorts (£125), to "the oldest known international rugby cap ever to be offered at auction" (Foster-Cunliffe's tasselled 1874 England titfer, £3,750) and golf legend Walter Hagen's 1927 US PGA diamond-studded winner's gold medal (£50,000)."