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macaroni

[mak-uh-roh-nee] / ˌmæk əˈroʊ ni /
NOUN
pasta
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I wanted something that still felt unmistakably like the macaroni salad you’d pile onto a paper plate at a backyard cookout, just with a little more lift.

From Salon Jul. 7, 2026

“It’s not the same to eat a plate of macaroni at 8 a.m. as it is at 3 p.m.”

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 3, 2026

Two weeks later, after returning from a Mediterranean cruise, they celebrated Ben's 18th birthday with his favourite meal - macaroni cheese and a cup of tea.

From BBC Jun. 5, 2026

The main flaw in the plan—the ends of the bolt stuck out—was audaciously overcome by putting the Bible under a very large, overflowing dish of macaroni with butter and cheese.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 13, 2026

He sat down beside Shadow and began to eat his macaroni and cheese.

From "American Gods" by Neil Gaiman

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.

From Knickerbocker's History of New York, Complete by Washington Irving

At times, all should take as much soup, potage, fish, etc., and also meat cooked with rice and macaronies, pastry, creams, etc.

From The Physiology of Taste by Fayette Robinson

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.

From The Physiology of Taste by Fayette Robinson

I would not give one for all the macaronies in England, with their powder and their snuff-boxes.

From Love and Life An Old Story in Eighteenth Century Costume by Charlotte Mary Yonge

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.

From Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8 by Charles Herbert Sylvester

Scientists are watching closely now to see how bird flu interacts with the different penguin species, which on South Georgia include kings, gentoos, macaronis and chinstraps.

From BBC Mar. 11, 2024

Chile is home to four kinds, but the macaronis live offshore, outside the tourist cone.

From Washington Post Sep. 1, 2016

The rockies and macaronis revisit the same colony and breeding site every year.

From Washington Post Sep. 1, 2016

Sixty-nine penguins — gentoos, macaronis and rockhoppers — have marched over to their new home, which opens to the public on Monday.

From US News Apr. 13, 2016

These were Haslet's Delaware, and Smallwood's Maryland regiments; the latter the macaronis, in scarlet and buff, who had outshone, in camp, their yeoman fellow-soldiers in home-spun.

From The Student's Life of Washington; Condensed from the Larger Work of Washington Irving For Young Persons and for the Use of Schools by Washington Irving




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