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Categories: 1770s fashion, English clothing, 1760s fashion, Human appearance, Effeminacy
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macaroni  maccaroni  Barbermonger  Macaroni Club  Macaroni dress
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A British dandy in the 18th century who affected Continental mannerisms WordNet 3.0
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A British dandy in the 18th century who affected Continental mannerisms WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
A macaroni was a pejorative term used to describe a fashionable fellow of 18th-century Britain. Wikipedia
A fop, a dandy; especially a young man in the 18th century who had travelled in Europe and who dressed and often spoke in an ostentatiously affected Continental manner. Wiktionary
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Yankee Doodle stuck a feather in his cap and called it macaroni WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
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