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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
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'Macaroni, probably from old Italian maccare, to bruise, to batter, to pester
Life of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887
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