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mortadella|mɔːtəˈdɛla| Pl. mortadelle. Also mortadel, mortadello. [It. dim., irreg. f. L. murtātum (sausage) seasoned with myrtle berries.] A large spiced pork sausage; Bologna sausage.
1613[see cervelat 1]. 1732Ld. Essex Let. 26 Aug. in R. B. Peake Mem. Colman Family (1841) I. ii. 30 If you would let your steward buy for me a good Parmesan cheese and some Mortadellos. 1846R. Ford Gatherings from Spain xi. 129 The savoury piquant embuchados, which are akin to the mortadelle of Bologna, only less hard. 1921D. H. Lawrence Sea & Sardinia iii. 118 There is mortadella, the enormous Bologna sausage, thick as a church pillar. 1934F. Scott Fitzgerald Tender is Night i. xiii. 76 They ate sandwiches of mortadel sausage. 1950E. Hemingway Across River & into Trees xxii. 162 People at home think mortadella is a sausage. 1962G. Butler Coffin in Oxford xi. 151 A plate of mortadella. 1972M. Howells Pop. Ital. Cookery 13 Mortadella. There are many varieties of this sausage, in different sizes and shapes. 1973E. McGirr Bardel's Murder ii. 54 If you'd seen the knife he was using to cut up the mortadella sausage, guv'nor, you'd have gone peacefully away. |