Nouns ending in -ée are usually feminine, but le macchabée is masculine.
Macchabée is one of the rare exceptions: learn it as it is.
Is macchabée masculine or feminine?
lemacchabéeexception
The rule behind it
91.7% of -ée nouns are feminine
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