macaroons

n. cookie consisting mainly of almond paste or coconut

Macaroons are cookies or confections, or crosses between the two, depending on where they are made. The macaroon is a close cousin to the meringue. The original macaroon is the cookie version, made with powdered almonds, which originated in Italy (where they are called "amaretto"). The English word macaroon comes from the French macaron, from the word maccarone, regionally used in Italy to refer to maccherone (kind of pasta, with a hole and a larger diameter than bucatini) - because almond macaroon paste is the same colour as macaroni pasta.
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Noun
1. chewy drop cookie usually containing almond paste
(hypernym) cookie, cooky, biscuit
(hyponym) ratafia, ratafia biscuit

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