macedoine

noun4

1. •
   A mixture of diced vegetables or fruit served as a salad.
2. •
   A type of dish containing a mixture of many types of fruits, or many types of vegetables.

   • We chilled it in a wonderful old French copper mold that we borrowed, naturally, from Lucullus, and surrounded it with a macédoine of fruit. — 2009
3. •
   (figurative) A medley or mixture.

   • 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. — 1937
4. •
   (figurative) A confused mixture; a medley.