Feather in Yankee Doodle's hat (8 letters)

{ Answer }

MACARONI

{ Related Clues }

" . . . and called it ___"
Elbows on the table
Salad pasta
Some tubes
Trattoria offering
Tubes on a plate
Pasta for Yankee Doodle?
Popular side dish
English dandy: 18th century
Food that can be strung on a necklace
This means "small blessed cakes"

{ Tags }

18th, be, blessed, cakes, can, century, dandy, doodles, feather, food, hat, macaroni, means, necklace, pasta, popular, small, strung, this, tubes, yankee

{ Notes }

The answer MACARONI is rarely seen, appearing only about once every 1200 puzzles.

{ Definition }

MACARONI as a noun:

1. a British dandy in the 18th century who affected Continental mannerisms; "Yankee Doodle stuck a feather in his cap and called it macaroni"

2. pasta in the form of slender tubes