A sweet pastry traditionally made in France.(noun)
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Use "macaron" in a sentence
"Gargantua and Pantagruel, we find hard written evidence that the word macaron meant a dessert."
"The word macaron comes from "the Italian maccherone and the Venetian macarone (meaning fine paste), from which macaroni is also derived," says Larousse Gastronomique, the encyclopedia of French cooking."