Macaroon

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  • noun. A chewy cookie made with sugar, egg whites, and almond paste or coconut.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A small sweet cake, made of sweet-almond meal instead of wheaten flour, and white of eggs.
  • noun. A droll; a buffoon. A finical fellow; a fop; an exquisite. Compare macaroni, 3.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A small cake, composed chiefly of the white of eggs, almonds or coconut, and sugar.
  • noun. A finical fellow, or macaroni.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A soft biscuit or cookie prepared with almond or coconut dough.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. chewy cookie usually containing almond paste
  • Word Usage
    "What most of us know as a macaroon is usually made with coconut, sometimes almond paste, and it's sometimes swirly, sometimes round, frequently dense and often tasty, but rarely light, elegant or ooh-la-la worthy."
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