Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A relish made of the roes of certain fishes strongly salted after they have become putrid: much used on the coast of the Mediterranean as an incentive to thirst. The great white Russian sturgeon, Acipenser huso, is one of the principal sources of botargo. The best botargo comes from Tunis, is dry and reddish, and is eaten with olive-oil and lemon-juice. Also
bottargo .
Wiktionary
- n. A sort of cake or sausage, made of the salted roes of the mullet, much used on the Mediterranean coast as an incentive to drink.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A sort of cake or sausage, made of the salted roes of the mullet, much used on the coast of the Mediterranean as an incentive to drink.
Etymologies
- Italian bottarga, bottarica or Spanish botarga; a kind of large sausage, a sort of wide breeches: compare French boutargue. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“W.lliam and I, and it being very hot weather I took my flageolette and played upon the leads in the garden, where Sir W. Pen came out in his shirt into his leads, and there we staid talking and singing, and drinking great drafts of claret, and eating botargo”
“So home Sir W.lliam and I, and it being very hot weather I took my flageolette and played upon the leads in the garden, where Sir W. Pen came out in his shirt into his leads, and there we staid talking and singing, and drinking great drafts of claret, and eating botargo”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘botargo’.
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More fun than a barrel of pickles
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Tweets
Looking for tweets for botargo.
bilby Looks like roejam to me :-( Dec 20, 2010
Prolagus
Dec 20, 2010
Prolagus It does. :) Dec 20, 2010
hernesheir Salted putrid roe. It must taste just delightful. Dec 20, 2010