taste
/teɪst/ nom B1En français : goût, saveur, avant-goût
- One of the sensations produced by the tongue in response to certain chemicals; the quality of giving this sensation. · He had a strange taste in his mouth.· Venison has a strong taste.
- The sense that consists in the perception and interpretation of this sensation. · His taste was impaired by an illness.
- A small sample of food, drink, or recreational drugs.
- A person's implicit set of preferences, especially esthetic, though also culinary, sartorial, etc. · Dr. Parker has good taste in wine.
- Personal preference; liking; predilection. · I have developed a taste for fine wine.
- A small amount of experience with something that gives a sense of its quality as a whole. · Such anecdotes give one a taste of life on a trauma ward.
- A kind of narrow and thin silk ribbon.
Pluriel tastes
Dans la bibliothèque
The next thing was to eat the comfits: this caused some noise and confusion, as the large birds complained that they could not taste theirs, and the small ones choked and had to be patted on the back.
No accounting for tastes!
The time was barely 10 o’clock at night, but chilly gusts of wind with a taste of rain in them had well nigh de-peopled the streets.
He arrayed himself in the regalia of millionaires and presidents; he took himself to the quarter where life is brightest and showiest, and there dined with taste and luxury.
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