macedoine

See also: macédoine and Macédoine

English

Etymology

From French Macédoine (“Macedonia”). Doublet of Macedonia.

Noun

macedoine (plural macedoines)

1. A mixture of diced vegetables or fruit served as a salad.
2. (figurative) A medley or mixture.
   • 1937, P. G. Wodehouse, 'Lord Emsworth and Others', Overlook, Woodstock: 2002, pp 112-113.

     It was as if a shell had burst in my immediate neighbourhood... A gaping chasm opened in the hillside. The air became full of a sort of macedoine of grass, dirt, flowers and beetles.

Synonyms

• fruit salad

Translations

mixture of diced vegetables or fruit

• Finnish: hedelmäsalaatti (fi)
• Spanish: macedonia (es) f

See also

• macedonia