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Young men who had been to Italy on the Grand Tour adopted the Italian word ''maccherone''—a boorish fool in Italian— and said that anything that was fashionable or ''à la mode'' was 'very macaroni'. The expression was particularly used to characterize Fop s who dressed in high fashion with stripes and tall, powdered Wig s with a little hat on top which was so high that it could only be removed on the point of a sword. Macaronies combined the enjoyment of Wine , sex and song with effeminacy of dress. They are a precursor to the Dandy and the Metrosexual . The song " Yankee Doodle " from the time of the American Revolutionary War talks of a man who 'stuck a feather in his hat and called it Macaroni.' This shows that "Macaroni" at the time was an American slang term for the most foolishly up-to-date of fashions. SEE ALSO REFERENCES
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