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- noun Plural form of
macaroni .
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Examples
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“He is known by fifty names,” said Mr Monckton; “his friends call him the moralist; the young ladies, the crazy-man; the macaronies, the bore; in short, he is called by any and every name but his own.”
Cecilia 2008
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Do not look at either biscuits or macaronies; you have fruits of all kinds, confitures and much else that you may safely indulge in, according to my principles.
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The beaux distinguished themselves by their adroitness in replenishing this pot from a huge copper tea-kettle which would have made the pigmy macaronies of these degenerate days sweat merely to look at it.
Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8 Charles Herbert Sylvester
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But soon there came the spirit and the pride that were to make them the best drilled troops, the dandies and macaronies of the army.
The Tory Maid Herbert Baird Stimpson
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You have proved yourself a man, Richard, and there are very few macaronies would have done as you did.
Richard Carvel — Volume 07 Winston Churchill 1909
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I wandered out of the assembly-room and through the silent corridors of the St.dt House, turning over and over again what I had heard, and picturing Dorothy reigning over the macaronies of St. James's St.eet.
Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill Winston Churchill 1909
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I wandered out of the assembly-room and through the silent corridors of the St.dt House, turning over and over again what I had heard, and picturing Dorothy reigning over the macaronies of St. James's St.eet.
Richard Carvel — Volume 03 Winston Churchill 1909
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The report I had heard was now confirmed, that his fortune was dissipated, and that he lived entirely off these young rakes who aspired to be macaronies.
Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill Winston Churchill 1909
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You might then talk, forsooth, to the macaronies of Maryland, of your daughter the
Richard Carvel — Volume 03 Winston Churchill 1909
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The report I had heard was now confirmed, that his fortune was dissipated, and that he lived entirely off these young rakes who aspired to be macaronies.
Richard Carvel — Volume 07 Winston Churchill 1909
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