1756, "pertaining to Bologna" (q.v.); also as a noun, "native or inhabitant of Bologna," 1717, from Italian Bolognese.
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Bologna
city in north-central Italy, famous during the Middle Ages for its university, 16c. for its painters, from Latin Bononia, which represents either Gaulish bona "foundation, fortress," or Boii, the name of the Gaulish people who occupied the region 4c. B.C.E. As a large type of sausage first made there, 1850, from bologna sausage (1590s). Also see baloney.