macaroni
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
macaroni /ˌmakəˈrəʊni/
▶noun (pl. macaronies)
- 1 a variety of pasta formed in narrow tubes.
- 2 an 18th-century British dandy affecting Continental fashions.
– origin C16: from Ital. maccaroni, pl. of maccarone, from late Gk makaria ‘food made from barley’.
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