botargo

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botargo - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Botargo \Bo*tar"go\, n. [It. bottarga, bottarica; or Sp.
     botarga; a kind of large sausages, a sort of wide breeches:
     cf. F. boutargue.]
     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.
     [1913 Webster]