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Discuss Email this Feedback RSS/XML Permalink A.Word.A.Day--macedoine This week's theme: French terms for food. macedoine (mas-i-DWAN) noun A mixed dish, usually of fruit and/or vegetables, in which several different varieties are combined into a colorful tableau. [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.] Today's word in Visual Thesaurus. -Guest wordsmith Rudy Chelminski (rudychelminskiATaol.com) "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. X-Bonus The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude. -Aldous Huxley, novelist (1894-1963)

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