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  • Maccheroni—spelled in a variety of ways—was the most popular medieval pasta term; it comes from maccare, meaning to pound or crush.

    Delizia! John Dickie 2008

  • 'Macaroni, probably from old Italian maccare, to bruise, to batter, to pester

    Life of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887

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