Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun 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.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun 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.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A sort of
cake orsausage , made of thesalted roes of themullet , much used on theMediterranean coast as anincentive todrink .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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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
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1661 N.S. Samuel Pepys 1668
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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
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 11: June/July/August 1661 Samuel Pepys 1668
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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
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete Samuel Pepys 1668
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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
The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Jun/Jul/Aug 1661 Pepys, Samuel 1661
hernesheir commented on the word botargo
Salted putrid roe. It must taste just delightful.
December 21, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word botargo
It does. :)
December 21, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word botargo
December 21, 2010
bilby commented on the word botargo
Looks like roejam to me :-(
December 21, 2010
chained_bear commented on the word botargo
"Greek olives and French capers were imported as appetite stimulants and, by the end of Elizabeth's reign, anchovies were arriving along with botargo, a Mediterranean relish made of grey mullet or tuna roes."
--Kate Colquhoun, Taste: The Story of Britain Through Its Cooking (NY: Bloomsbury, 2007), 94
January 8, 2017