What's the difference between polonaise and polony?

Polonaise


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the Poles, or to Poland.
  • (n.) The Polish language.
  • (n.) An article of dress for women, consisting of a body and an outer skirt in one piece.
  • (n.) A stately Polish dance tune, in 3-4 measure, beginning always on the beat with a quaver followed by a crotchet, and closing on the beat after a strong accent on the second beat; also, a dance adapted to such music; a polacca.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) For instance Alive appealed to young men who liked true adventure stories, but my next book, Polonaise , was a novel about a sexually perverted Polish intellectual.
  • (2) His novels Polonaise and The Free Frenchman were also set in the context of the second world war.

Polony


Definition:

  • (n.) A kind of sausage made of meat partly cooked.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) During storage at 5 degrees C for 12 d, the mean pH of polony declined from 6,32 to 6,20 while the aerobic count increased 13 fold.
  • (2) A survey of 25 polony samples of different brands available to the consumer in Bloemfontein showed that significant numbers of various micro-organisms were present.
  • (3) It is concluded that standards for microbiological quality of polony are unnecessary.
  • (4) Organisms isolated most frequently from spoilt polony were yeasts, micrococci, lactic acid bacteria and corynebacteria.

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