macaroni

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A noun with two distinct meanings: it can refer to a type of pasta made in slender tube shapes, or historically to an 18th-century British dandy who adopted Continental fashions and mannerisms.

• 🇵🇹Substantivo com dois sentidos distintos: designa um tipo de massa em forma de tubinhos finos (macarrão) ou, historicamente, um dândi britânico do século XVIII que adotava modas e maneiras continentais.

1. Pasta A1 formal

   A type of pasta made from durum wheat, shaped into small, slender tubes.

   • She cooked macaroni and cheese for dinner.
   • The children love eating macaroni with tomato sauce.
   • He added some butter and herbs to the boiled macaroni.

   🇵🇹Macarrão

2. 18th-century dandy C1 formal british

   A British dandy in the 18th century who adopted exaggerated Continental European fashions and mannerisms.

   • The macaroni was known for his flamboyant clothing and powdered wig.
   • In the 1770s, a macaroni would often carry a large cane and wear a tiny hat.
   • The song 'Yankee Doodle' famously mocks a man who sticks a feather in his cap and calls it macaroni.

   🇵🇹Dândi do século XVIII

   Sinônimos: beaudandyfoppopinjay

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