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mac⋅a⋅roon

  [mak-uh-roon]
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–noun
a drop cookie made of egg whites, sugar, usually almond paste or coconut, and sometimes a little flour.
Origin:
1605–15; < MF macaron < dial. It maccarone cake or biscuit made of ground almonds; see macaroni
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mac·a·roon   (māk'ə-rōōn')   
n.  A chewy cookie made with sugar, egg whites, and almond paste or coconut.

[French macaron, from Italian dialectal maccarone, dumpling, macaroni.]
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Word Origin & History

macaroon 
1611, "small sweet cake consisting largely of ground almonds," from Fr. macaron (16c.), from It. dial. maccarone (see macaroni). Fr. meaning said to have been invented 1552 by Rabelais. The -oon ending was conventional in 15c.-17c. Eng. to add emphasis to borrowings of Fr. nouns ending in stressed -on.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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macaroon

cookie or small cake made of sugar, egg white, and almonds, ground or in paste form, or coconut. The origin of the macaroon is uncertain. The name is applied generally to many cookies having the chewy, somewhat airy consistency of the true macaroon.

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