Definition of "botargo" [bo•tar•go]

• 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. (noun)

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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"
• "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"