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macaroni

Part of Speech: noun

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            1.                                           Long                                                         slender                                                           tubes                                                         made                                                         of                                                           a                                                         paste                                                         chiefly                                                         of                                                         wheat                                                         flour,                                                         and                                                         used                                                         as                                                         an                                                         article                                                         of                                                         food;                                                         Italian                                                         or                                                         Genoese                                                         paste.                                    

            2.                                             A                                                         medley;                                                           something                                                         droll                                                         or                                                         extravagant.                                    

            3.                                             A                                                           sort                                                         of                                                         droll                                                         or                                                         fool.                                    

            4.                                           The                                                         designation                                                         of                                                           a                                                         body                                                         of                                                           Maryland                                                           soldiers                                                         in                                                         the                                                         Revolutionary                                                         War,                                                         distinguished                                                         by                                                           a                                                         rich                                                         uniform.                                    

            5.                                             A                                                         finical                                                         person;                                                           a                                                         fop; -                                                         applied                                                         especially                                                         to                                                         English                                                           fops                                                         of                                                         about                                                           1775.

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How many will this recipe for Macaroni and Cheese serve? - "School and Home Cooking", Carlotta C. Greer.
You are stopped by a carpenter's bench, you are lost among shoemakers' stalls, and you dash among the pots of a macaroni stall. - "The Book of Household Management", Mrs. Isabella Beeton.
And then there was an elaborate macaroni, one of the Lord Lieutenant's household,- Mr. Beauchamp; and last, Lord Castlemallard, who liked very well to be the chief man in the room, and dozed after dinner serenely in that consciousness, and loved to lean back upon his sofa in the drawing- room, and gaze in a dozing, smiling, Turkish reverie, after Gertrude Chattesworth and pretty Lilias, whom he admired; and when either came near enough, he would take her hand and say,- 'Well, child, how do you do? - "The House by the Church-Yard", J. Sheridan Le Fanu.

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