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noun, plural mac·a·ro·nis, mac·a·ro·nies for 2.
1.
small, tubular pasta prepared from wheat flour.
2.
an English dandy of the 18th century who affected Continental mannerisms, clothes, etc.
Also, maccaroni.
Origin:
1590–1600; earlier maccaroni < dialectal Italian, plural of maccarone (Italian maccherone). See macaroon
1590–1600; earlier maccaroni < dialectal Italian, plural of maccarone (Italian maccherone). See macaroon
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Macaroni
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| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| an extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event; an exceptional example or instance. |
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macaroni
1599, from southern It. dialect maccaroni (It. maccheroni), pl. of *maccarone, possibly from maccare "bruise, batter, crush," of unknown origin, or from late Gk. makaria "food made from barley." Used after c.1764 to mean "fop, dandy" (the "Yankee Doodle" reference) because it was an exotic dish at a
EXPAND time when certain young men who had traveled the continent were affecting Fr. and It. fashions and accents. There is said to have been a Macaroni Club in Britain, which was the immediate source of the term.
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macaroni
in art, Late Paleolithic finger tracings in clay. It is one of the oldest and simplest known forms of art. Innumerable examples appear on the walls and ceilings of limestone caves in France and Spain (see Franco-Cantabrian art), the oldest dating back about 30,000 years. Examples of the form range from simple scratchings and jumbled, apparently aimless lines to deliberate meanders, arabesques, and outline drawings of animals and humans.
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