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bo⋅lo⋅gna
[buh-loh-nee, -nuh, -lohn-yuh] 
–noun
| a large seasoned sausage made of finely ground meat, usually beef and pork, that has been cooked and smoked. |
Bo⋅lo⋅gna
[buh-lohn-yuh; It. baw-law-nyah] –noun
| 1. | Gio⋅van⋅ni da [jee-uh-vah-nee duh; It. jaw-vahn-nee dah] , (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 (bə-lō'nē, -nə, -nyə) n. A seasoned smoked sausage made of mixed meats, such as beef, pork, and veal. [After Bologna.] |
| Bo·lo·gna (bə-lōn'yə) 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: 373,000. Bo·lo'gnan, Bo'lo·gnese' (bō'lə-nēz', -nēs', -lən-yēz', -yēs') adj. & n. |
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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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bologna
1850, variant of bologna sausage (1596), named for the city in Italy, formerly Bononia. See baloney.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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