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saveloy

[ sav-uh-loi ]

noun

, Chiefly British.
  1. a highly seasoned, dried sausage.


saveloy

/ ˈsævɪˌlɔɪ /

noun

  1. a smoked sausage made from salted pork, well seasoned and coloured red with saltpetre
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of saveloy1

1830–40; probably < French cervelas, Middle French cervelat < Italian cervellato Milanese sausage, originally containing pig's brains, equivalent to cervell ( o ) brain ( cerebellum ) + -ato -ate 1
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Word History and Origins

Origin of saveloy1

C19: probably via French from Italian cervellato, from cervello brain, from Latin cerebellum, diminutive of cerebrum brain
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Example Sentences

Saveloy, sav′e-loi, n. a kind of sausage made of meat chopped and seasoned, orig.

He had breakfasted off a saveloy; we saw on a plate, with some crumbs of bread, the remains of that too familiar delicacy.

You were welcomed to his venison when he had it—his present saveloy was equally at your service.

Lisa, still absent-minded, gave her the black-pudding and slices of saveloy.

Saveloy, a kind of sausage; French cervelas, from its containing brains.

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