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Piquant
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savory
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
aromatic mint, late 14c., perhaps an alteration of Old English sæþerie , which is ultimately from Latin satureia "savory (n.)," a foreign word in Latin. But early history of the word suggests transmission via Old French savereie . In either case, the form ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
I. adjective EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ savory grilled vegetables ▪ Americans eat about six billion pounds of savory snacks a year. ▪ There were some less savory businesses at the south end of Sewell Street. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ And yet that warm and ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
" Savory " was the first single released by Jawbox from their 1994 major label debut, For Your Own Special Sweetheart , released as Savory + 3 . The song is a description of the female body, according to Allmusic , but in a very cryptic form. The three ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. morally respectable or inoffensive; "a past that was scarcely savory" [syn: savoury , inoffensive ] [ant: unsavory ] having an agreeably pungent taste [syn: piquant , savoury , spicy , zesty ] pleasing to the sense of taste [syn: mouth-watering , savoury ...
Usage examples of savory.
As the excellent American chefs Chris Schlesinger and John Willoughby have pointed out, grilling forced an entirely new approach to saucemaking: With no residue to deglaze, the cook had to think in terms of savory complements rather than subtle echoes.
The tiny siblings greeted his arrival with weak squeals of joy, for instead of squashy kale pie, Jacko brought spicy chicken galantine, savory and strong.
The filet of baby dewback with caper sauce and fleik-liver pate was the best Trevagg had ever eaten, and when Nightlity hooned, with modestly downcast eyes, that virgins of her people were only permitted fruits and vegetables, Porcellus outdid himself in the production of four courses of lipana berries and honey, puptons of dried magicots and psibara, a baked felbar with savory cream, and staggeringly good bread pudding for dessert.
Besides, Herbert discovered towards the southwest point of the lagoon a natural warren, a slightly damp meadow, covered with willows and aromatic herbs which scented the air, such as thyme, basil, savory, all the sweet-scented species of the labiated plants, which the rabbits appeared to be particularly fond of.
Cover with two cupfuls of bread-crumbs moistened with hot water, and seasoned with butter, salt, pepper, sage, summer savory, and sweet marjoram.
Ketterer was in evening uniform, breeches, white silk stockings and silver-buckled shoes, more florid than usual having enjoyed a mulligatawny soup, barbecued fish, a double helping of the roast beef and Yorkshire pudding with potatoes roasted in the dripping and vegetables imported from California, chicken and pheasant pie, a few fried pork sausages, followed by Californian dried apple pie with a lavish portion of the now famous Noble House cream, and to top everything off, a Welsh rarebit savory.
Warrl, once a taste had assured her that the savory portion of meat pie would not have to be put to rewarm beside the fire.
Nikolai, sitting in his office, dreamed of how he would eat his own shchi, the savory smell of which would fill the whole yard, eat on the green grass, sleep in the sun, spend whole hours sitting outside the gate on a bench, gazing at the fields and woods.
Marcella cooked the little clams for the spaghettini and the vegetables for the monk-fish, a savory recipe from her third book.
To put the necessary distance between tajine and a mundane stew, one should conjure up all that is savory, succulent, and delicately perfumed.
She sipped on tangelo juice, enjoying the sweet taste with the savory food.
When we did, after the melancholy epochs of Janet Savory and Tweedy Browner, things proceeded to fall apart.
Soups should be nicely and delicately seasoned, according to the taste of the consumer, by using parsley, sage, savory, thyme, sweet marjoram, sweet basil, or any of the vegetable condiments.
The savory stalls are up ahead and to the right, along Sarayu Marg, on the way to the parade grounds.
French fashion, a salad of watercress and violets, a rabbit stewed in herbs, a roast pheasant with artichoke dressing, boiled lupins, a gammon of bacon in pastry, a Turkish dish of meat, buttered peasecods, French bread and sourdough barley bread, a Rhine wine, Italian cream, a parmesan savory and figs.