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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Macaroni \Mac`a*ro"ni\, n.; pl {Macaronis}, or {Macaronies}.
[Prov. It macaroni, It maccheroni fr Gr ? happiness,
later a funeral feast, fr ? blessed, happy. Prob. so called
because eaten at such feasts in honor of the dead; cf Gr ?
blessed, i. e., dead. Cf {Macaroon}.]
1. Long slender tubes made of a paste chiefly of wheat flour,
and used as an article of food; Italian or Genoese paste.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
macaroni
n : pasta in the form of slender tubes
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