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Smoked sausage
Answer for the clue "Smoked sausage ", 7 letters:
saveloy
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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.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A seasoned pork sausage, normally purchased ready cooked
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.
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 ...
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.