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Sausage is chopped and seasoned meat, especially pork, usually stuffed into a casing.

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An example of sausage is salami.

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noun

pork or other meat,chopped fine, highly seasoned, and either stuffed into membranous casings of varying size, as bologna or salami, or made into patties for cooking

Origin: ME sausige < NormFr saussiche, for OFr saulcisse < VL salsicia < L salsus: see sauce

See sausage in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun

Finely chopped and seasoned meat, especially pork, usually stuffed into a prepared animal intestine or other casing and cooked or cured.

Origin:

Origin: Middle English sausige

Origin: , from Anglo-Norman sausiche

Origin: , from Vulgar Latin *salsīcia

Origin: , from Late Latin

Origin: , neuter pl. of salsīcius, prepared by salting

Origin: , from salsus, salted; see sauce

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