macedoine

杂样水果冻, 混杂物

发音

/ˌmæsəˈdwɑːn/

词形变化

macedoines 复数 macedoines

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A mixture of diced vegetables or fruit served as a salad.

  2. 2.

    A medley or mixture.

    比喻

    1937, P. G. Wodehouse, 'Lord Emsworth and Others', Overlook, Woodstock: 2002, pp 112-113. It was as if a shell had burst in my immediate neighbourhood... A gaping chasm opened in the hillside. The air became full of a sort of macedoine of grass, dirt, flowers and beetles.

词汇关系

名词

上位词 1

dish

词源

From French Macédoine (“Macedonia”). Doublet of Macedonia.

来源：wiktionary