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Mâcon

//ˈmakɒ̃// name, noun

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Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A city and commune, the prefecture of Saône-et-Loire department, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France.

    "It was not until after the waiter came with the bill that Scott decided that we have the hotel make us a picnic lunch. I tried to argue him out of this as I was sure we could get a bottle of Mâcon in Mâcon and we could buy something to make sandwiches in a charcuterie."

Noun
  1. 1
    Alternative spelling of Macon, red or white burgundy wine from Mâcon or extremely similar to such wines. alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable

Etymology

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French Mâcon, from earlier Mascon and Medieval Latin Masconis, a syncopated form of Madasconis and Matisco, probably from Gaulish matus (“bear”) (from Proto-Celtic *matus, commonly understood as a euphemistic derivation from *matis (“good”)), and a suffix equivalent to -iscus (“-ish: forming adjectives”).

Etymology 2

Borrowed from French Mâcon, from earlier Mascon and Medieval Latin Masconis, a syncopated form of Madasconis and Matisco, probably from Gaulish matus (“bear”) (from Proto-Celtic *matus, commonly understood as a euphemistic derivation from *matis (“good”)), and a suffix equivalent to -iscus (“-ish: forming adjectives”).

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