a mixture of fruits or vegetables, often served as a salad.
a medley.
a hot or cold mixture of diced vegetables
a mixture of fruit served in a syrup or in jelly
any mixture; medley
1810–20; < French, after Macédoine Macedonia, probably an allusion to the variety of peoples in the region
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My interpretation of the latter was a fruit macédoine, a salad of finely diced fruit.
From Slate ● Nov. 8, 2018
It is to be hoped she is: for the novel is a sort of macédoine of Irish history, folk-lore, scenery, and what not, done up in a syrup of love-making quant. suff.
From The English Novel by Saintsbury, George
Boars' heads, meat pies, salade macédoine, coeur de palmier, hollandaise were washed down with magnums and quarts of Irroy brut, 1900, Pol Roger, Chambertin, graceful Bohemian crystal goblets of Liebfraumilch and Johannisberger Schloss-Auslese.
From The Merry-Go-Round by Van Vechten, Carl
The macédoine may be used as a garnish for meat, or can be served separately in a vegetable dish.
From The Century Cook Book by Ronald, Mary
The fact would seem to be that the art of letter-writing is a sort of mosaic or macédoine of nearly all departments of the general Art of Literature.
From A Letter Book Selected with an Introduction on the History and Art of Letter-Writing by Saintsbury, George
Then sleep in a macedoine of wild berries with cream.
From New York Times ● Jan. 9, 2023
A macedoine of strawberries followed and a scoop of cheese.
From The Blotting Book by Benson, E. F. (Edward Frederic)
Ingredients: Sweetbreads, larding, bacon, stock, a macedoine of vegetables.
From The Cook's Decameron: a study in taste, containing over two hundred recipes for Italian dishes by Waters, W. G., Mrs.
Ingredients: Eels, butter, flour, stock, bay leaves, salt, pepper, Chablis, a macedoine of vegetables.
From The Cook's Decameron: a study in taste, containing over two hundred recipes for Italian dishes by Waters, W. G., Mrs.
In the centre of the dish place a piece of bread in the shape of a cup and fill this with a macedoine of vegetables.
From The Cook's Decameron: a study in taste, containing over two hundred recipes for Italian dishes by Waters, W. G., Mrs.
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