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macaroon|mækəˈruːn|
Also 7 makeron(e, maquaroon, mackroom, mackroon, 7–8 mackeroon(e, mackaroon(e, macaron, 8 makeroon, macron, 7–9 maccaroon.
[a. F. macaron (16th c.), ad. It. maccarone (now maccherone) sing. of maccaroni: see macaroni.]
1. A small sweet cake or biscuit consisting chiefly of ground almonds, white of egg, and sugar.
1611Cotgr., Macarons, Macarons; little Fritter-like Bunnes, or thicke Losenges, compounded of Sugar, Almonds, Rosewater, and Muske. 1611Markham Country Content. ii. ii. (1668) 98 To make Jumbals more fine and curious..and nearer to the taste of the Macaroon. 1630J. Taylor (Water P.) Gt. Eater Kent Wks. i. 146/1 Whether it bee..Fritter, or Flapiacke, or Posset, Galley-Mawfrey, Mackeroone, Kickshaw, or Tantablin. 1688R. Holme Armoury iii. 83/2 Mackrooms, a kind of roul of sweet Bread. 1725Bradley Fam. Dict. s.v. Tourte, You may also put a pounded Macaroon into the Artichoke Cream. 1747H. Glasse Cookery xv. 141 To make Maccaroons. 1848J. Grant Adv. Aide-de-C. xxviii. (Rtldg.) 227 Little maccaroons, sweet as sugar and almonds could make them. 1875A. R. Hope My School-boy Fr. 138 We were regaling on macaroons.
attrib.1783F. Burney Diary 9 Dec., I had no more power to prevent it than this macaroon cake in my hand. 1836T. Hook G. Gurney I. 297 A Jew boy, selling macaroon cakes. 1898Gully in Daily News 21 July 7/5 A Marchpane is an edifice in macaroon work.
†2. = macaroni 1. Obs.
1704J. Pitts Acc. Mahometans iii. (1738) 24 What they call Mackaroon is some Paste made only with Flour and Water. 1738[G. Smith] Curious Relat. II. 302 A Sort of Pudding, which they [in Malta] call Macron. 1753Chambers Cycl. Supp., Macaron, the name of a sort of vermicelli, a paste made of flour and water, and formed into the shape of the barrel of a quill, or the guts of small fowls.
†3. A buffoon; a blockhead, dolt. Also dial. a fop (= macaroni 2). Obs. [Cf. It. maccherone.]
a1631Donne Sat. iv. 117 Like a bigge wife, at sight of lothed meat..; so I sigh and sweat To heare this Makeron talke in vaine. a1633R. B. In Mem., Donne's Poems 401 A Macaroon And no way fit to speake to clouted shoone. a1825Forby Voc. E. Anglia, Macaroon, a fop. |