Meanings
plural savaloys
- alternativeAlternative spelling of saveloy.
Savaloys, or Cervelas. [...] Fill the gut, and bake the savaloys for half an hour in a moderate oven.
[1810], [Esther Copley], “Stuffings, Seasonings, Forcemeat, &c.”, in The Cook’s Complete Guide, on the Principles of Frugality, Comfort, and Elegance […], London: George Virtue, […], →OCLC, page 3942 more examples
"She always has a savaloy for supper, and I'm going to fetch it, and the beer." [...] [H]e walked arm-in-arm with the golden-tressed creature who now carried the savaloy for her mother in a piece of old newspaper!
1855 May, “The Lamplighter: A Model Story for Young Authors”, in Harper’s New Monthly Magazine, volume X, number LX, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC, chapter II, page 818If you pushed a little further up through the crowd you would see, on the other side, and old bloke with gingery hair who wore a long, thin, ochre-coloured coat, sitting there all day on a high wooden stool shouting: ‘Savaloys! Savaloys! Savaloys!’
2004, Bryan Magee, chapter 5, in Clouds of Glory: A Hoxton Childhood, London: Pimlico, →ISBN, page 59
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