zest
/zɛst/ noun C1- The outer skin of a citrus fruit, used as a flavouring or garnish. · The orange zest gives the strong flavor in this dish.
- General vibrance of flavour. · I add zest to the meat by rubbing it with a spice mixture before grilling.
- Enthusiasm; keen enjoyment; exciting and interesting; relish or gusto; a state of being zesty. · Auntie Mame had a real zest for life.
- State of being a flamboyant or effeminate homosexual.
Plural zests
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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.
She walked, rowed, berried, and dreamed to her heart’s content; and when September came she was bright-eyed and alert, with a step that would have satisfied the Spencervale doctor and a heart full of ambition and zest once more.
“It immensely adds to the zest of an investigation, my dear Mr.
This incident gives zest to our investigation, however, and I only trust that our little friend will not suffer from her imprudence in allowing this brute to trace her.
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