a smoked sausage made from salted pork, well seasoned and coloured red with saltpetre
Word origin
C19: probably via French from Italian cervellato, from cervello brain, from Latin cerebellum, diminutive of cerebrum brain
saveloy in American English
(ˈsævəˌlɔɪ)
noun
a highly seasoned, dried English sausage
Word origin
altered < Fr cervelas < MFr cervelat < It cervellata, assoc. with cervello, the brains, used in making it (< L cerebellum: see cerebellum); orig., however, prob. a deer-meat sausage < cervo, stag < L cervus: see cervid