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bo·lo·gna
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Audio Help [buh-loh-nee, -nuh, -lohn-yuh] Pronunciation Key –noun
| a large seasoned sausage made of finely ground meat, usually beef and pork, that has been cooked and smoked. |
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Bologna
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Bo·lo·gna
Audio Help [buh-lohn-yuh; It. baw-law-nyah] Pronunciation Key
Audio Help [buh-lohn-yuh; It. baw-law-nyah] Pronunciation Key –noun
| 1. | Gio·van·ni da
Audio Help [jee-uh-vah-nee duh; It. jaw-vahn-nee dah] Pronunciation Key, (Jean de Boulogne; Giambologna ), c1525–1608, Italian sculptor, born in France. |
| 2. | a city in N Italy. 484,406. |
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| bo·lo·gna
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n. A seasoned smoked sausage made of mixed meats, such as beef, pork, and veal. [After Bologna.] |
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| Bo·lo·gna
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A city of north-central Italy at the foot of the Apennines north-northeast of Florence. It was originally an Etruscan town and became a Roman colony in the second century B.C. Its famed university was founded as a law school in A.D. 425. Population: 374,000. Bo·lo'gnan, Bo'lo·gnese' (bō'lə-nēz', -nēs', -lən-yēz', -yēs') adj. & n. |
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bologna
1850, variant of bologna sausage (1596), named for the city in Italy, formerly Bononia. See baloney.
| Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper |
| bologna | |
noun | |
| 1. | the capital of Emilia-Romagna; located in northern Italy to the east of the Apennines |
| 2. | large smooth-textured smoked sausage of beef and veal and pork |
| WordNet® 3.0, © 2006 by Princeton University. |
Bologna
Bo*lo"gna\, n. 1. A city of Italy which has given its name to various objects. 2. A Bologna sausage. Bologna sausage [It. salsiccia di Bologna], a large sausage made of bacon or ham, veal, and pork, chopped fine and inclosed in a skin. Bologna stone (Min.), radiated barite, or barium sulphate, found in roundish masses composed of radiating fibers, first discovered near Bologna. It is phosphorescent when calcined. Bologna vial, a vial of unannealed glass which will fly into pieces when its surface is scratched by a hard body, as by dropping into it a fragment of flint; whereas a bullet may be dropped into it without injury.| Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc. |
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