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Macaroon

//ˌmæk.əˈɹuːn// noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A soft biscuit or cookie prepared with almond or coconut dough.

    "I will take charge of the cake department, including, if I remember rightly, plum and plain, rout cakes, and macaroons, finger biscuits, and cracknels."

  2. 2
    A coarse, rude, low fellow. archaic

    "Like a big wife, at sight of lothed meat, Ready to travail; so I sigh and sweat, To hear this macaroon talk on in vain."

  3. 3
    chewy cookie usually containing almond paste wordnet
  4. 4
    Alternative spelling of macaron. alt-of, alternative

Etymology

Etymology 1

From French macaron. Doublet of macaron.

Etymology 2

From Italian macarone.

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