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  • noun A mixture of diced vegetables or fruit served as a salad.

Etymologies

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French Macédoine ("Macedonia").

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Examples

  • In spite of our own common sense and all rational evidence to the contrary, we seem to buy unquestioningly into any old macedoine-mashup of dopey, absurd stuff, just because it's on the Internet, and we won't believe the most obvious and verifiable truths from something as vetted and cross-checked as a real encyclopedia.

    Patt Morrison: Quakes and Conspiracies -- Oh, Give It a Rest 2010

  • In spite of our own common sense and all rational evidence to the contrary, we seem to buy unquestioningly into any old macedoine-mashup of dopey, absurd stuff, just because it's on the Internet, and we won't believe the most obvious and verifiable truths from something as vetted and cross-checked as a real encyclopedia.

    Quakes and Conspiracies -- Oh, Give It a Rest 2010

  • Haidt, of course, doesn't stop at making a macedoine of disgust and morality.

    Conflating Morality and Disgust is Immoral: Haidt and the Happiness Hypothesis 2007

  • Haidt, of course, doesn't stop at making a macedoine of disgust and morality.

    Conflating Morality and Disgust is Immoral: Haidt and the Happiness Hypothesis 2007

  • Lemesurier not only gives the original prophecies in Nostradamus' original argot Occitan French with a macedoine of other vocabulary, but a complete concordance to them.

    Kenneth Hite's Journal princeofcairo 2006

  • The macedoine à la Paysanne is composed of peas, broad fava beans, green beans diced to the size of a pea, and carrot slices, the whole being cooked in butter.26

    Savoring The Past Wheaton Barbara Ketcham 1983

  • Two basic mixtures appear here for the first time: a chiffonnade, printed or perhaps misprinted as chifouade, and a macedoine.

    Savoring The Past Wheaton Barbara Ketcham 1983

  • The macedoine à la Paysanne is composed of peas, broad fava beans, green beans diced to the size of a pea, and carrot slices, the whole being cooked in butter.26

    Savoring The Past Wheaton Barbara Ketcham 1983

  • Two basic mixtures appear here for the first time: a chiffonnade, printed or perhaps misprinted as chifouade, and a macedoine.

    Savoring The Past Wheaton Barbara Ketcham 1983

  • Cook a macedoine of vegetables separately, and garnish each fillet with some of it, then cook them in a covered stewpan

    The Cook's Decameron: a study in taste, containing over two hundred recipes for Italian dishes W. G. Waters

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  • All the rest had a macedoine of accents - English, French, Italian...

    - Nabokov, Ada, or Ardor

    June 5, 2008

  • "There's a macedoine of languages spoken in East Palo Alto..." http://apps.npr.org/codeswitch-changing-races/

    April 20, 2013

  • Not to be compared, however, with the macedoine of Macedonia, the doyenne of macedoines.

    April 21, 2013