macédoine
noun · first attested 19th century
The dish is named for a region that Europeans thought of as a patchwork of peoples.
A mixture of diced fruit or vegetables; by extension, any jumbled medley.
Macedonia·Ottoman Empire
41.3293°N 22.5086°E · Q103251
Record
- Relationship
- Named from the place
- Confidence
- Well attestedThe place link is the standard scholarly account.
- Attested
- 19th century
- Part of speech
- noun
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Macedonia
- In English
macédoine
French cooks used macedoine for a mixed dish from the middle of the eighteenth century, alluding to the many nations gathered under Alexander's Macedonian empire and still living side by side in the Balkan region that carried the name. English borrowed the word in the nineteenth century and quickly extended it to any confused mixture. The historical region is now divided among Greece, North Macedonia, and Bulgaria.