macédoine
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A type of dish containing a mixture of many types of fruits, or many types of vegetables.
Example Sentences
- "This one is a mixture of textures and tastes and all kinds of vegetables—that's why it is called a macédoine. It's an odd route from Alexander the Great to your table, but Alexander, a Macedonian, had an empire consisting of many disparate states."
- "We chilled it in a wonderful old French copper mold that we borrowed, naturally, from Lucullus, and surrounded it with a macédoine of fruit."
- "Actually, this ethnic situation—a “macédoine” of peoples—was complicated even more from the 1860s on when some of the Slavs in Macedonia who had always called themselves Bulgarians (and were considered so by most foreign experts) began developing a Macedonian national consciousness."
Etymology
Borrowed from French macédoine.
Subject
Wiktionary places this term in Food.