Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To taste with relish; savor.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To taste; relish.
- To have a taste; be relishing.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb obsolete To taste.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To
taste - verb To
savour
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb taste with relish
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The Cheese Princess chose some of the exquisite bonbons to degust, while you can see there are many other delectable treats...
Beth Arnold: Letter From Paris: Chocolate and Jacques Genin Beth Arnold 2011
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The Cheese Princess chose some of the exquisite bonbons to degust, while you can see there are many other delectable treats...
Beth Arnold: Letter From Paris: Chocolate and Jacques Genin Beth Arnold 2011
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The Cheese Princess chose some of the exquisite bonbons to degust, while you can see there are many other delectable treats...
Beth Arnold: Letter From Paris: Chocolate and Jacques Genin Beth Arnold 2011
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They had private seating areas for each tasting party with spitting buckets built into the coffee tables, and you could degust everything from candy to jam to wine.
Beth Arnold: Letter From Paris: Chilling in Corsica, Part 3 2010
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Now, if the soupe au vin had been known in Troy, it is clear that in declining vinum merum upon that score, he would have added in the hexameter, 'But a soupe au vin, madam, I will degust, and gratefully.'
The Cloister and the Hearth Charles Reade 1849
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