macedoine (mas-i-DWAN) noun
1. A mixture of diced fruits or vegetables, often served as salad,
appetizer, or dessert.
2. A medley or mixture.
[From French mac�doine, from Mac�doine (Macedonia), apparently an allusion
to the diversity of people in the region.]
Today's word in Visual Thesaurus: http://visualthesaurus.com/?w1=macedoine
"So in her own home -- where raspberries and tiny fraises des bois grow
in the garden -- a frequent dessert is an artless salad or macedoine
of cut-up fruit, such as peaches, nectarines or apricots, with a few
berries thrown into the mix."
Karola Saekel; Alice Waters' Newest Showcases Fresh Fruit; San Francisco
Chronicle; May 8, 2002.
"There are similar impulses in Art Nouveau Bing, the English Aesthetic
and American Arts and Crafts movements, the Vienna Secession -- and the
style moderne of Czarist Russia, which mixed them all together in a
macedoine."
Margo Miller; The Man Who Made Art Nouveau; Boston Globe; Sep 11, 1987.
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