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- noun A mixture of
diced vegetables orfruit served as asalad .
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Examples
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In spite of our own common sense and all rational evidence to the contrary, we seem to buy unquestioningly into any old macedoine-mashup of dopey, absurd stuff, just because it's on the Internet, and we won't believe the most obvious and verifiable truths from something as vetted and cross-checked as a real encyclopedia.
Patt Morrison: Quakes and Conspiracies -- Oh, Give It a Rest 2010
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In spite of our own common sense and all rational evidence to the contrary, we seem to buy unquestioningly into any old macedoine-mashup of dopey, absurd stuff, just because it's on the Internet, and we won't believe the most obvious and verifiable truths from something as vetted and cross-checked as a real encyclopedia.
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Haidt, of course, doesn't stop at making a macedoine of disgust and morality.
Conflating Morality and Disgust is Immoral: Haidt and the Happiness Hypothesis 2007
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Haidt, of course, doesn't stop at making a macedoine of disgust and morality.
Conflating Morality and Disgust is Immoral: Haidt and the Happiness Hypothesis 2007
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Lemesurier not only gives the original prophecies in Nostradamus' original argot Occitan French with a macedoine of other vocabulary, but a complete concordance to them.
Kenneth Hite's Journal princeofcairo 2006
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The macedoine à la Paysanne is composed of peas, broad fava beans, green beans diced to the size of a pea, and carrot slices, the whole being cooked in butter.26
Savoring The Past Wheaton Barbara Ketcham 1983
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Two basic mixtures appear here for the first time: a chiffonnade, printed or perhaps misprinted as chifouade, and a macedoine.
Savoring The Past Wheaton Barbara Ketcham 1983
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The macedoine à la Paysanne is composed of peas, broad fava beans, green beans diced to the size of a pea, and carrot slices, the whole being cooked in butter.26
Savoring The Past Wheaton Barbara Ketcham 1983
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Two basic mixtures appear here for the first time: a chiffonnade, printed or perhaps misprinted as chifouade, and a macedoine.
Savoring The Past Wheaton Barbara Ketcham 1983
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Cook a macedoine of vegetables separately, and garnish each fillet with some of it, then cook them in a covered stewpan
The Cook's Decameron: a study in taste, containing over two hundred recipes for Italian dishes W. G. Waters
yarb commented on the word macedoine
All the rest had a macedoine of accents - English, French, Italian...
- Nabokov, Ada, or Ardor
June 5, 2008
milosrdenstvi commented on the word macedoine
"There's a macedoine of languages spoken in East Palo Alto..." http://apps.npr.org/codeswitch-changing-races/
April 20, 2013
rolig commented on the word macedoine
Not to be compared, however, with the macedoine of Macedonia, the doyenne of macedoines.
April 21, 2013