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macedoine

  • /ˌmæsəˈdwɑːn/

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

noun macedoines

  1. A mixture of diced vegetables or fruit served as a salad.
  2. figuratively 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.

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noun mixture of diced vegetables or fruit

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@misc{macedoine_2026,
  title = {macedoine},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/macedoine},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}