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Sausage served by the Spanish in a fancy hotel
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saveloy
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A seasoned pork sausage, normally purchased ready cooked
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A saveloy is a type of highly seasoned sausage , usually bright red, normally boiled and frequently available in British fish and chips shops, occasionally also available fried in batter . The word is believed to originate from the Swiss-French cervelas ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Saveloy \Sav"e*loy\, n. [F. cervelas, It. cervellata, fr. cervello brain, L. cerebellum, dim. of cerebrum brain. See Cerebral .] A kind of dried sausage. --McElrath.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a ready-cooked and highly seasoned pork sausage
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1837, corruption of French cervelas , from Italian cervellata , from cervello "brain," from Latin cerebrum (see cerebral ). So called because it originally was made of pigs' brains.
Usage examples of saveloy.
Solomon Pell in court, regaling himself, business being rather slack, with a cold collation of an Abernethy biscuit and a saveloy.
The art exhibition was being held in the Global Standard Deity church at Wanborough and had been opened by Frankie Saveloy a half-hour before I arrived.
And there are the office lads in their first surtouts, who feel a befitting contempt for boys at day-schools, club as they go home at night, for saveloys and porter, and think there's nothing like 'life.