: a small spicy sausage used chiefly as a garnish or hors d'oeuvre
also: a dish (as a ragout) of which such sausages are an ingredient
Word History
Etymology
French, from Italian cipollata, from feminine of cipollato with onions, from cipolla onion (from Late Latin cepula, diminutive of Latin cepa, caepa onion) + -ato -ate