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| mac·a·ro·ni [ màkə rṓnee ] |
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1. small pasta tubes: hollow tubular pasta, usually produced in short lengths
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2. (plural mac·a·ro·nis or mac·a·ro·nies) well-traveled dandy: in 18th-century Britain, an affected, foppish young man who adopted the fashions, manners, and customs of the other countries he had visited
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| [Late 16th century. < Italian dialect maccarone "macaroni, dumpling"] |
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