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BOTARGO
Etymology
Noun
botargo (plural botargos or botargoes)
Bottarga; a cake or sausage made from salted mullet roe.
Source: Wiktionary
Bo*tar"go, n. Etym: [It. bottarga, bottarica; or Sp. botarga; a kind of large sausages, a sort of wide breeches: cf. F. boutargue.]
Definition: A sort of cake or sausage, made of the salted roes of the mullet, much used on the coast of the Mediterranean as an incentive to drink.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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