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Macedoine

//ˌmæsəˈdwɑːn// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A mixture of diced vegetables or fruit served as a salad.
  2. 2
    mixed diced fruits or vegetables; hot or cold wordnet
  3. 3
    A medley or mixture. figuratively

    "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."

Etymology

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

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