boudin

noun3

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
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.

   • Small bodies of mafic to ultramafic rocks occur as boudins or sills up to 7 km long within the gneiss. — 1994