Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Agreeable to the taste; pleasant.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Having a savor; savory.
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- adjective
flavorful - adjective
savory ,tasty
Etymologies
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Examples
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Those ribs look so savorous and rich, I think I must try that recipe.
Just Call Me Culinary Jebus Brilynn 2007
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In relation to solid and savorous bodies, it is necessary in the first place for the teeth to divide them, that the saliva and other tasting fluids to imbibe them, and that the tongue press them against the palate, so as to express a juice, which, when sufficiently saturated by the degastory tendrils, deliver to the substance the passport it requires for admission into the stomach.
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In moral man it is the sensation which the organ impressed by any savorous centre impresses on the common centre.
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That is to say, the savorous particles must be dissolved in some fluid, so as to be subsequently absorbed by the nervous tubes, feelers, or tendrils, which cover the interior of the gastatory apparatus.
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When there were difficulties in getting flour for bread to supply the people of Ferney, he experimented with the use of potato starch in baking, and the results so pleased him that he wrote Parmentier to describe the “very savorous bread” obtained with equal parts of wheat and potato flour.73 One is reminded of the books of Bonnefons, the Jardinier françois and Les Delices de la campagne, written more than a century before.
Savoring The Past Wheaton Barbara Ketcham 1983
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The recipe is more lucid than many of his others, “an exquisite thing, for they are very savorous, fortifying the stomach and sweetening the breath.”
Savoring The Past Wheaton Barbara Ketcham 1983
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When there were difficulties in getting flour for bread to supply the people of Ferney, he experimented with the use of potato starch in baking, and the results so pleased him that he wrote Parmentier to describe the “very savorous bread” obtained with equal parts of wheat and potato flour.73 One is reminded of the books of Bonnefons, the Jardinier françois and Les Delices de la campagne, written more than a century before.
Savoring The Past Wheaton Barbara Ketcham 1983
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The recipe is more lucid than many of his others, “an exquisite thing, for they are very savorous, fortifying the stomach and sweetening the breath.”
Savoring The Past Wheaton Barbara Ketcham 1983
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I know well that S. Clare was in the way full of merits, and that she was ravished in the profoundness of the great clearness and light of heaven, nevertheless though she were resplendissant, well savorous, and right full of great miracles as is well declared by the cardinals of Rome, mine oath of truth that I have made and my conscience, constraineth me that
The Golden Legend, vol. 6 1230-1298 1900
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They seem to have done less to destroy life's palate with the condiments of civilization, and therefore, still find plain things savorous.
Germany and the Germans From an American Point of View Price Collier 1886
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