boudin
/buˈdæ̃/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 2.06 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A kind of blood sausage in French, Belgian, Luxembourgish and related cuisines.
noun
A sausage in southern Louisiana Creole and Cajun cuisine, made from rice, ground pork (occasionally crawfish), and spices in a sausage casing.
Example Sentences
- "Eurohucksters will find it difficult to wean the sausage lovers of Liége away from their bursting black Belgian boudins and toward Birmingham's humble bangers. Beer hawkers should fare no better."
- "The principal French boudin competition is held every year at Mortagne-au-Perche in Normandy, attracting hundreds […]"
- "In general the softer, mousse-like texture of French boudins is the more appropriate in this instance."
- "Formation of boudins Although the shape of the greenstone bodies resembles in many ways that of boudins as described elsewhere (Cloos, 1946, 1947; Ramberg, 1955; Jones, 1959), the shape of the greenstone bodies is believed to be ..."
- "However, discordant dykes, locally disrupted in boudins, attest to both late dykes and post-crystallization movement of the carbonate rocks. Some of those boudins are interpreted as immiscible silicate blebs in carbonatitic melt […]"
- "Small bodies of mafic to ultramafic rocks occur as boudins or sills up to 7 km long within the gneiss."
Etymology
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /buˈdæ̃/
- British English: /buːˈdæ̃/
Inflected Forms
Phrases
boudin blanc
boudin noir