macédoine

American  

[mas-i-dwahn] / ˌmæs ɪˈdwɑn /

noun

1. a mixture of fruits or vegetables, often served as a salad.

2. a medley.

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macedoine British  

/ ˌmæsɪˈdwɑːn /

noun

1. a hot or cold mixture of diced vegetables

2. a mixture of fruit served in a syrup or in jelly

3. any mixture; medley

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Etymology

Origin of macédoine

1810–20; < French, after Macédoine Macedonia, probably an allusion to the variety of peoples in the region

Example Sentences

My interpretation of the latter was a fruit macédoine, a salad of finely diced fruit.

From Slate • Nov. 8, 2018

Boars' heads, meat pies, salade macédoine, coeur de palmier, hollandaise were washed down with magnums and quarts of Irroy brut, 1900, Pol Roger, Chambertin, graceful Bohemian crystal goblets of Liebfraumilch and Johannisberger Schloss-Auslese.

From The Merry-Go-Round by Van Vechten, Carl

The fact would seem to be that the art of letter-writing is a sort of mosaic or macédoine of nearly all departments of the general Art of Literature.

From A Letter Book Selected with an Introduction on the History and Art of Letter-Writing by Saintsbury, George

It is also served with a garniture of mushrooms or onions, or with a macédoine, or on a purée of spinach, or of sorrel.

From Hand-Book of Practical Cookery for Ladies and Professional Cooks by Blot, Pierre

It is to be hoped she is: for the novel is a sort of macédoine of Irish history, folk-lore, scenery, and what not, done up in a syrup of love-making quant. suff.

From The English Novel by Saintsbury, George