flavour
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How to use flavour in a sentence
So there is nothing that starts with ‘Take 17 litres of stock…’ Everything in there is about flavour.
Tom Parker Bowles on Camilla's Roast Chicken, His Cocaine Sting and Those Pictures of Kate | Tom Sykes | October 3, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTThere seemed the flavour of some strange authority in her that baffled all approach to the former intimacy.
The Wave | Algernon BlackwoodThe time passed along quickly; the coffee was excellent, the cigars soft and of the nutty flavour he loved.
Three More John Silence Stories | Algernon BlackwoodTo detect the flavour of an olive is no less a piece of human perfection than to find beauty in the colours of the sunset.
The Pocket R.L.S. | Robert Louis StevensonJohn Dory pulled at his cigar appreciatively, sniffed its flavour for a moment, and then leaned forward in his chair.
The Double Four | E. Phillips Oppenheim
There was often a brusqueness in her comings and goings, but she usually left a flavour of herself behind.
Hilda | Sarah Jeanette Duncan
British Dictionary definitions for flavour
US flavor
/ (ˈfleɪvə) /
taste perceived in food or liquid in the mouth
a substance added to food, etc, to impart a specific taste
a distinctive quality or atmosphere; suggestion: a poem with a Shakespearean flavour
a type or variety: various flavours of graphical interface
physics a property of quarks that enables them to be differentiated into six types: up, down, strange, charm, bottom (or beauty), and top (or truth)
flavour of the month a person or thing that is the most popular at a certain time
(tr) to impart a flavour, taste, or quality to
Origin of flavour
1Derived forms of flavour
- flavourer or US flavorer, noun
- flavourless or US flavorless, adjective
- flavoursome or US flavorsome, adjective
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