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saveloy

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sav·e·loy  (sv-loi)
n.
A highly seasoned smoked pork sausage.
[Alteration of obsolete French cervelat, from Italian cervellato, ultimately from dialectal zervello, brain, from Latin cerebellum, diminutive of cerebrum, brain; see ker-1 in Indo-European roots.]
saveloy
Noun
Brit, Austral & NZ a highly seasoned smoked sausage made from salted pork [Italian cervellato]
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Noun1.saveloy - a ready-cooked and highly seasoned pork sausage
pork sausage - sausage containing pork
Britain, Great Britain, U.K., UK, United Kingdom, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland - a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; `Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom


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The noise of footsteps on the creaking stairs, a few minutes after the occurrence of this conversation, roused the merry old gentleman as he sat over the fire with a saveloy and a small loaf in his hand; a pocket-knife in his right; and a pewter pot on the trivet.
Oliver Twist Or The Parish Boy's Progress by Dickens, Charles View in context
Solomon Pell in court, regaling himself, business being rather slack, with a cold collation of an Abernethy biscuit and a saveloy.
The Posthumous Papers Of The Pickwick Club by Dickens, Charles View in context
When I dined regularly and handsomely, I had a saveloy and a penny loaf, or a fourpenny plate of red beef from a cook's shop; or a plate of bread and cheese and a glass of beer, from a miserable old public-house opposite our place of business, called the Lion, or the Lion and something else that I have forgotten.
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