boudins

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
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