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macédoine

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ma·​cé·​doine | \ ˌma-sə-ˈdwän How to pronounce macédoine (audio) \

Definition of macédoine

1 : a confused mixture : medley
2 : a mixture of fruits or vegetables served as a salad or cocktail or in a jellied dessert or used in a sauce or as a garnish
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Did You Know?

Macédoine is the French name for Macedonia, a region on the Balkan Peninsula that is now part of Greece, the Republic of North Macedonia, and Bulgaria. Historically, this area has been home to a richly varied population encompassing many ethnic groups. Etymologists believe that the cultural heterogeneity of the region may have inspired people to use its name as a generic term for any kind of wildly jumbled mixture. English speakers borrowed "macédoine" early in the 19th century. The word took on its more specific "salad" sense later in the century.

Examples of macédoine in a Sentence

a quirky secondhand bookstore with a macédoine of out-of-print titles

Recent Examples on the Web

 It was surrounded by a classic macedoine of strawberries with basil. — Polly Campbell, Cincinnati.com, "Perch at Blackbird Eatery for Mary Swortwood's latest," 20 June 2018

First Known Use of macédoine

1820, in the meaning defined at sense 1

History and Etymology for macédoine

French, from Macédoine Macedonia; perhaps from the mixture of ethnic groups in Macedonia

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