Macaroni Men and Eighteenth-Century Fashion Culture - 'The Vulgar Tongue'

McNeil, PK

Macaroni Men and Eighteenth-Century Fashion Culture - 'The Vulgar Tongue'

McNeil, PK

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Publisher:: Australian Academy of the Humanities
Publication Type:: Journal Article
Citation:: Humanities Australia - The Journal of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, 2017, 1 (8), pp. 57 - 71
Issue Date:: 2017-10-01

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dc.contributor.author	McNeil, PK https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2151-4196	en_US
dc.date.issued	2017-10-01	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Humanities Australia - The Journal of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, 2017, 1 (8), pp. 57 - 71	en_US
dc.identifier.issn	1837-8064	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/123479
dc.description.abstract	In 1823 when this term was included in Pierce Egan’s new edition of Grose’s Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue (1785), ‘macaroni’ had been circulating in the English language for sixty years, denoting a species of foppish man.2 It was a term mainly used between 1760 and 1780, but was still in everyday use in 1795, when a verse described men shopping in the spa town of Bath thus: ‘booted and spur’d, the gay macaronies, Bestride Mandell’s counter, instead of their ponies’.3 The word continues to echo on a daily basis within the refrain of the famous patriotic tune Yankee Doodle (published 1767), referring to the appearance of troops during the French and Indian War (or the ‘Seven Years War’, 1754–63)	en_US
dc.publisher	Australian Academy of the Humanities	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	Humanities Australia - The Journal of the Australian Academy of the Humanities	en_US
dc.title	Macaroni Men and Eighteenth-Century Fashion Culture - 'The Vulgar Tongue'	en_US
dc.type	Journal Article
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pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building/School of Design
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Strength - CCDP - Contemporary Design Practice
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Abstract:

In 1823 when this term was included in Pierce Egan’s new edition of Grose’s Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue (1785), ‘macaroni’ had been circulating in the English language for sixty years, denoting a species of foppish man.2 It was a term mainly used between 1760 and 1780, but was still in everyday use in 1795, when a verse described men shopping in the spa town of Bath thus: ‘booted and spur’d, the gay macaronies, Bestride Mandell’s counter, instead of their ponies’.3 The word continues to echo on a daily basis within the refrain of the famous patriotic tune Yankee Doodle (published 1767), referring to the appearance of troops during the French and Indian War (or the ‘Seven Years War’, 1754–63)

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