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- adjective Possessing
flavour .
Etymologies
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Examples
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A bit flavoury -- not bad, I mean -- but with something of the taste of a duck's egg.
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Previous to being eaten, it is dipped in a very flavoury sauce, and, although they are not quite so graceful in the art of eating as are the Neapolitan _Lazzaroni_, still with the help of a spoon and as many fingers as are available, the Corean natives seem to manage to swallow large quantities of this in a very short time.
Corea or Cho-sen The Land of the Morning Calm Arnold Henry Savage Landor 1894
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Then, to give flavour to our birds and rabbits, I can find mushrooms in abundance, and, indeed, several flavoury seeds and roots.
Ernest Bracebridge School Days William Henry Giles Kingston 1847
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Soy sauce makes it Chinese; garlic makes it flavoury.
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Soy sauce makes it Chinese; garlic makes it flavoury.
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