Dictionary

boudin en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /buːˈdæ̃/ (UK)
• /ˈbuː.dæ̃/ (UK)
• (Louisiana) audio
• /ˈbudæ̃/ (Louisiana)
• /buˈdæ̃/ (US)

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French boudin. Doublet of pudding. Cf. also poutine.

Meanings

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:
   • In general the softer, mousse-like texture of French boudins is the more appropriate in this instance. 2017, Jonathan Meades, The Plagiarist in the Kitchen: A Lifetime's Culinary Thefts, Unbound Publishing, →ISBN:
   • 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.
   • The blocks do not penetrate the leucogneiss foliation that surrounds them, and the result is a single boudin with a composite core. 1995, Northeastern Geology and Environmental Sciences:
   • 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:
   • Small bodies of mafic to ultramafic rocks occur as boudins or sills up to 7 km long within the gneiss. 1994, A. Thomas, Nicholas Culshaw, Kenneth L. Currie, Geological Survey of Canada, Geology of the Lac Ghyvelde-Lac Long Area, Labrador and Quebec:
   • 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:

Forms

Deriveds

boudin blanc · boudin noir