boudin

Noun

boudin (plural boudins)

1. A kind of blood sausage in French, Belgian, Luxembourgish and related cuisines.
   • 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.1995, Frank Bradley, International Marketing Strategy, Prentice Hall PTR
   • The principal French boudin competition is held every year at Mortagne-au-Perche in Normandy, attracting hundreds […]2002, Alan Davidson, The Penguin Companion to Food, Penguin Group USA, page 98
2. A sausage in southern Louisiana Creole and Cajun cuisine, made from rice, ground pork (occasionally crawfish), and spices in a sausage casing.
3. A structure formed by boudinage: one or a series of elongated, sausage-shaped section(s) in rock.
   • 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 ...1968, I. M. Stevenson, A Geological Reconnaissance of Leaf River Map-area, New Quebec and Northwest Territories
   • 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 […]1986, David P. Gold, Carbonatites, Diatremes, and Ultra-alkaline Rocks in the Oka Area, Quebec: May 22-23, 1986