English

Noun

motley crew ‎(plural motley crews)

1. A group of people of mixed background, especially one with a common goal.

Quotations

• 1830 John Carne - Recollections of Travels in the East: Forming a Continuation of the Letters from the East

  Away they marched from the rocky region and miserable village where they were posted, a motley crew of Christians and Infidels, Catholics, Greeks, and adorers of the Prophet, all mingled together, to go and attack the holy city . . .