tang
/ˈtæŋ/ nom C2En français : saveur piquante, queue
- A refreshingly sharp aroma or flavor. · a tang of citrus
- A strong or offensive taste; especially, a taste of something extraneous to the thing itself. · a tang of cellar· Wine or cider has a tang of the cask.
- A sharp, specific flavor or tinge. · a tang of pedantry
- A projecting part of an object by means of which it is secured to a handle, or to some other part. · (archaic)· slip the cable over the tang
- The part of a knife, fork, file, or other instrument or hand tool, which is inserted into the handle. · full-tang
- The part of a sword blade to which the handle is fastened.
- The projecting part of the breech of a musket barrel, by which the barrel is secured to the stock.
- A shuffleboard paddle.
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There was a tang in the very air that inspired the hearts of small maidens tripping, unlike snails, swiftly and willingly to school; and it _was_ jolly to be back again at the little brown desk beside Diana, with Ruby Gillis nodding across the aisle and Carrie Sloane sending up notes and Julia Bell passing a “chew” of gum down from the back seat.
The firs in the Haunted Wood were all feathery and wonderful; the birches and wild cherry-trees were outlined in pearl; the plowed fields were stretches of snowy dimples; and there was a crisp tang in the air that was glorious.
The waves broke with a soft swish on the rocks below them, and the tang of the sea was in the strong, fresh air.
Studies palled just a wee bit then; the Queen’s class, left behind in school while the others scattered to green lanes and leafy wood cuts and meadow byways, looked wistfully out of the windows and discovered that Latin verbs and French exercises had somehow lost the tang and zest they had possessed in the crisp winter months.
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