Sunday, September 30, 2007

WORD A DAY

MACEDOINE: 1: a confused mixture: medley 2: a mixture of fruits or vegetables served as a salad or cocktail or in a jellied dessert or used as a garnish

Macedoine is the French name for Macedonia, a region on the Balkan Peninsula that includes part of Greece, the Republic of Macedonia and Bulgaria. Historically, this area has been home to a richly varied population encompassing many ethnic groups, and linguists believe that its cultural heterogeneity may have inspired people to use its name as a generic term for any kind of wildly jumbled mixture. English-speakers borrowed the word early in the 19th century, and later in the century it took on the more specific "salad" sense.

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