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Macaronic   Listen
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Macaronic, Macaronian  adj.  
1.
Pertaining to, or like, macaroni (originally a dish of mixed food); hence, mixed; confused; jumbled.
2.
Of or pertaining to the burlesque composition called macaronic; as, macaronic poetry.





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"Macaronic" Quotes from Famous Books



... February, 1866, the editors of the 'Atlantic Monthly' received from the Rev. Mr. Hitchcock of Jaalam a letter enclosing the macaronic verses which follow, and promising to send more, if more should be communicated. 'They were rapped out on the evening of Thursday last past,' he says, 'by what claimed to be the spirit of my late predecessor in the ministry here, the Rev. Dr. Wilbur, through ...
— The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell • James Lowell


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