Macaroni penguin "chrysolophus" is derived from the Greek words "chryse" "golden", and "lophos" "crest". The common name was recorded from the early 19th century in the Falkland Islands. English sailors apparently named the species for its conspicuous yellow crest; Maccaronism was a term for a particular style in 18th-century England marked by flamboyant or excessive ornamentation. A person who adopted this fashion was labelled a "maccaroni" or "macaroni", as in the song "Yankee Doodle". Molecular clock evidence using DNA suggests the macaroni penguin split from its closest relative, the royal penguin ("Eudyptes schlegeli"), around 1.5 million years ago. The two have generally
Macaroni (fashion) a feather in the hat was a sufficient mark of a macaroni. Whether or not these were alternative lyrics sung in the British army, they were enthusiastically taken up by the Yankees themselves. Macaroni (fashion) A macaroni (or formerly maccaroni) 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" Young men who had been to Italy on the Grand Tour had developed a taste for "maccaroni", a type of pasta little known in England then, and