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TIL ‘Macaroni’ was an 18th century expression for fops who dressed in high fashion with tall, powdered wigs. The joke being made in “Yankee Doodle” is that Americans were allegedly naive enough to believe that a feather in the hat was a sufficient mark of a macaroni.

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