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tart

/tɑɹt/ adjective B2
  1. Sharp to the taste; acid; sour. · I ate a very tart apple.
  2. High or too high in acidity.
  3. Sharp; keen; severe. (figuratively) · He gave me a very tart reply.

Comparative tarter · Superlative tartest

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To eat with apple-tart.
A Child's Garden of Verses, p. 7 · C1
Lynde says she once heard a minister confess that when he was a boy he stole a strawberry tart out of his aunt’s pantry and she never had any respect for that minister again.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 209 · C1
However, this bottle was _not_ marked “poison,” so Alice ventured to taste it, and finding it very nice, (it had, in fact, a sort of mixed flavour of cherry-tart, custard, pine-apple, roast turkey, toffee, and hot buttered toast,) she very soon finished it off.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, p. 6 · B2

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