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tart
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Word definitions for tart in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"small pie," late 14c., from Old French tarte "flat, open-topped pastry" (13c.), possibly an alteration of torte, from Late Latin torta "round loaf of bread" (in Medieval Latin "a cake, tart"), perhaps from past participle of torquere "to twist."
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
Etymology 1 1 Sharp to the taste; acid; sour. 2 (context of wine English) high or too high in acidity. 3 (context figuratively English) Sharp; keen; severe. Etymology 2 n. A type of small open pie, or piece of pastry, containing jelly or conserve; a sort ...
Usage examples of tart.
Miss Robinson and the schoolmistress, he ate: julienne soup, baked and roast meats with suitable accompaniments, two pieces of a tart made of macaroons, butter-cream, chocolate, jam and marzipan, and lastly excellent cheese and pumpernickel.
All the time, he fed her, and himself, bits of cold smoked venison, hard cheese, oat cake, and bannock, even tart cherries, all washed down with cold ale.
The sauce was most greene and tart, with Pistacke, Nuttes pownded, Sugar, Cypricum, Amylum, and Muske, Time, white Marioram, and Pepper.
Hawk stands two foot taller than most, a black giant with Maori markings on his phiz and a young tart on his arm with a magpie nested in her hat.
Tim and his noble guests dawdled over their postprandial wines and cordials in the lamplit dining chamber, tall bonfires threw leaping, dancing shadows in both main and rear courtyards, where lancers and dragoons, Ahrmehnee and Kindred milled and laughed and shouted, gorging themselves on coarse bread and dripping chunks carved from the whole oxen slowly revolving on the spits, guzzling tankards of foaming beer, tart cider and watered wine.
Beales, the cook who had worked in the home of her childhood, Darcie remembered the tray of cold meat and cheese, the sweet tarts, the hot coffee, always at the ready should Steppy return from work late in the night.
Since yesterday morning when Joe brought the bad news about Lucien to All Tarted Up, his mood had made a steady downward progress.
All Tarted Up were strung out and waiting for something major to happen.
So I got Hugh cornered by a plate of my amethyst tarts -- grape jelly in feathery wee tartlets and just a touch of whipped cream -- and told him what had happened.
There, seated at a table with the Right Touch staff, Stark had eaten a surprising quantity of the tortellini and asparagus tarts that had cost him so dearly.
Then the pressure around me and in me was relieved as I felt the tart freshness of uncontaminated air around me and the smell was gone from my nose and throat and lungs.
But there was no whortleberry jam and only a small bowl of cream to go with the gooseberry tart.
Mor Crumb was eating a handful of bright yellow, exceedingly tart appleberries when Klinglanders descended on their camp.
With china-oranges and tarts And whinning plays, lay baits for hearts?
Meats, cheeses, breads, tarts, berries and nuts weighed heavy in the full basket and Faith saw to arranging the mouthwatering fare on the table.