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macaroni

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macaroni: see pasta pasta, generic name for thin pieces of hardened, unleavened dough that are molded into various shapes and boiled, not baked. Pasta is commonly associated with Italian cuisine, though similar wheat flour and rice flour pastas, usually called noodles, have been known
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macaroni, maccaroni
(in 18th-century Britain) a dandy who affected foreign manners and style


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There he established a little hostelry, in which was fabricated a macaroni so delicious that people came from miles round to fetch it or eat it.
Ten Years Later by Dumas, Alexandre View in context
Well do I remember that flaming Jew's "With the last breath all is done: joy, love, sorrow, macaroni, the theatre, lime-trees, raspberry drops, the power of human relations, gossip, the barking of dogs, champagne.
John Barleycorn by London, Jack View in context
Broken bread and scraps of frozen macaroni lay upon the cloth and at the bottom of two soup-plates and a tureen; the macaroni had a tinge of tomato; and there was a crimson dram left in the tumblers, with an empty fiasco to show whence it came.
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