Macédoine refers to a confused mixture or a combination of fruits or vegetables, often served as a salad or dessert. The term originates from historical Macedonia, reflecting a diverse region.
Macédoine est un mélange confus ou une combinaison de fruits ou légumes, souvent servi comme salade ou dessert. Le terme vient de la Macédoine historique, qui était une région diversifiée.
| Front | macédoine \mass-uh-DWAHN\ |
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| Back | noun 1. A confused mixture; medley. 2. A mixture of fruits or vegetables served as a salad or cocktail or in a jellied dessert or used in a sauce or as a garnish. [From French macédoine, from Macédoine (Macedonia). The reference is to the Balkan area of many different territories and ethnic groups that Alexander the Great welded into a single unit.] "So in her own home -- where raspberries and tiny fraises des bois grow in the garden -- a frequent dessert is an artless salad or macedoine of cut-up fruit, such as peaches, nectarines, or apricots, with a few berries thrown into the mix." - Karola Saekel; Alice Waters's Newest Showcases Fresh Fruit; San Francisco Chronicle; May 8, 2002. "There are similar impulses in Art Nouveau Bing, the English Aesthetic and American Arts and Crafts movements, the Vienna Secession -- and the style moderne of Czarist Russia, which mixed them all together in a macedoine." - Margo Miller; The Man Who Made Art Nouveau; Boston Globe; Sep 11, 1987. |
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