Brewer's: Salchichon

A huge Italian sausage. Thomas, Duke of Genoa, a boy of Harrow school, was so called, when he was thrust forward by General Prim as an “inflated candidate” for the Spanish throne.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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