Hypertext Webster Gateway: "macaroni"
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) 1.7 (wn)
macaroni
n : pasta in the form of slender tubes
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