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A macaroni (or formerly maccaroni)〔''OED''; Compare fop.〕 in mid-18th-century England was a fashionable fellow who dressed and even spoke in an outlandishly affected and epicene manner. The term pejoratively referred to a man who "exceeded the ordinary bounds of fashion"〔''The Macaroni and Theatrical Magazine'', inaugural issue, 1772, quoted in Amelia Rauser, "Hair, Authenticity, and the Self-Made Macaroni", ''Eighteenth-Century Studies'' 38.1 (2004:101-117) ((on-line abstract )).〕 in terms of clothes, fastidious eating and gambling. Like a practitioner of macaronic verse, which mixed English and Latin to comic effect, he mixed Continental affectations with his English nature, laying himself open to satire: The macaronis were precursor to the dandies, who far from their present connotation of effeminacy came as a more masculine reaction to the excesses of the macaroni. == Origins and etymology == Young men who had been to Italy on the Grand Tour had developed a taste for macaroni, a type of Italian food little known in England then, and so they were said to belong to the Macaroni Club.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 work= Oxford English Dictionary )〕 They would refer to anything that was fashionable, or ''à la mode'', as "very maccaroni". 〔Rauser 2004〕 Horace Walpole wrote to a friend in 1764 of "the Macaroni Club, which is composed of all the traveled young men who wear long curls and spying-glasses". The "club" was not a formal one: the expression was particularly used to characterize fops who dressed in high fashion with tall, powdered wigs with a chapeau bras on top that could only be removed on the point of a sword. The shop of engravers and printsellers Mary and Matthew Darly in the fashionable West End of London sold their sets of satirical "macaroni" caricature prints, published between 1771 and 1773. The new Darly shop became known as "the Macaroni Print-Shop". The Italian term ''maccherone'', figuratively meaning "blockhead, fool", was not related to this British usage.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Macaroni (fashion)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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