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bo·lo·gna

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–noun

a large seasoned sausage made of finely ground meat, usually beef and pork, that has been cooked and smoked.

Also called bologna sausage.

[Origin: 1555–65; after Bologna, Italy

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Bo·lo·gna

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–noun

1.	Gio·van·ni da Audio Help [jee-uh-vah-nee duh; It. jaw-vahn-nee dah] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation, (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 Audio Help (bə-lō'nē, -nə, -nyə) Pronunciation Key
n. A seasoned smoked sausage made of mixed meats, such as beef, pork, and veal.

[After Bologna.]

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Bo·lo·gna Audio Help (bə-lōn'yə) Pronunciation Key
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.

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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

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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.

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