sève

American  

[sev] / sɛv /

noun

French.

1. the characteristic flavor and body of a wine.

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Etymology

Origin of sève

Literally, “sap”

Example Sentences

Seve has let the detritus of life pile up around him — literally — with delivery packages and plastic-wrapped clothes overrunning his tiny Baltimore apartment.

From Los Angeles Times

He considers Seve “a surrogate big brother.”

From Los Angeles Times

“Were our lives normal, were we living the way we were meant to live?” we hear her think in the voice of the actress Waikamania Seve.

From The Wall Street Journal

Alternating every two or three chapters, Ms. Seve and the actor Caleb Teaupa unfurl a blood- and brine-soaked epic set in and around the islands of long-ago Polynesia.

From The Wall Street Journal

A life-sized statue of Spanish golf great Seve Ballesteros has gone missing from his hometown Pedrena, in the north of the country in an apparent robbery.

From Barron's