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saucisson

saucisson

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A dry French sausage made from pork and eaten in slices
  • noun
  • /sɔːsɪˈsɒn/
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  • The charcuterie board included slices of saucisson, olives, and fresh baguette.

Examples

  • For our picnic, I brought some delicious saucisson and cheese to share with everyone.

  • But it would require dropping the assumption that the only "good" Muslims are those who eat saucisson with their red wine.

    Academic text (2006)

  • The saucisson, the bread, the wine, Partridge's talk.

    Fiction book (2002)

  • This is the example illustrated in the Battle of Algiers movie, a technique called the saucisson or the submarine in Latin America.

    Blog text (33)

  • I love it for the Polish dry cured sausage that looks and tastes pretty much like the French traditional saucisson.

    Blog text (12)

  • He gave me all sorts of recommendations, telling me not to forget to buy some sausage (saucisson de Lyon, of course), to be sure to stop into Notre-Dame-de-Fourvière, and so forth.

    Fiction book (2001)

  • At the market, I found a variety of saucisson made from different types of meat.

Surface Forms

saucisson singular
saucissons plural

Etymology

The word saucisson comes from French for a kind of sausage and is like the English word sausage. It comes from an old Latin root salsus meaning 'salted', which helps you remember that a saucisson is a dry, cured, salty sausage usually served sliced.