andouille
[an-doo-ee, ahn-dwee; French ahn-doo-yuh]
- a spicy, smoked pork sausage, with garlic and Cajun seasonings.
- a spicy, black-skinned chitterlings sausage.
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Origin of andouille
1600–05; < French < Old French andoille < Vulgar Latin inductilia (unattested) “stuffed (things, foods)” < inductilis (unattested) “made by insertion, stuffed” < Latin inductus, past participle of indūcere “to lead in, draw in”; see induct
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Gabrielle Taper, 19, sat next to her two teenage friends and nibbled on crawfish and Andouille, a type of sausage made from pork.
New Orleans Celebrates Its Favorite Sandwich at the Oak Street Po-Boy FestivalTyler Gillespie
November 26, 2013
Cover the top of each fillet with a quarter of the andouille crust mixture.
andouille
- a spicy smoked pork sausage with a blackish skin
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Word Origin and History for andouille
n.
type of sausage, c.1600, from French andouille (12c.), from Latin inductilia, neuter plural of inductilis, from inducere "to load or put in" (see induct). The original notion was perhaps of the filling "introduced" into the sausage.
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