macédoine /ˈmasɪdwɑːn 
/ ▸ noun 1 a mixture of vegetables or fruit cut into small pieces: seared sea bass fillet with a macédoine of turnips and carrots.
2 a medley or mixture of unrelated things: a macédoine of disjointed detail.
– ORIGIN French, literally ‘Macedonia’, with reference to the mixture of peoples in the Macedonian Empire of Alexander the Great.
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