flavor
/ˈfleɪvɚ/ noun B1- The quality produced by the sensation of taste or, especially, of taste and smell in combined effect. · The flavor of this apple pie is delicious.
- Flavoring, a substance used to produce a taste. · Flavor was added to the pudding.
- A variety (of taste) attributed to an object (food, candy, chewing gum, medicine, etc). · What flavor of bubble gum do you most enjoy?· My favorite flavor of lip balm is called mystical minty camomile.
- The characteristic quality of something. · the flavor of an experience
- A kind or type. · Debian is one flavor of the Linux operating system.
- Style.
- One of the six types of quarks (top, bottom, strange, charmed, up, and down) or three types of leptons (electron, muon, and tauon).
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I can recognize the flavor of the alcohol in which it has been dissolved.
Rare birds, retaining their most brilliant plumage, enormous fish, spread upon massive silver dishes, together with every wine produced in the Archipelago, Asia Minor, or the Cape, sparkling in bottles, whose grotesque shape seemed to give an additional flavor to the draught,—all these, like one of the displays with which Apicius of old gratified his guests, passed in review before the eyes of the astonished Parisians, who understood that it was possible to expend a thousand louis upon a dinner for ten persons, but only on the condition of eating pearls, like Cleopatra, or drinking refined gold, like Lorenzo de’ Medici.
“Oh, yes,” she exclaimed, “I recognize the flavor of my nocturnal beverage which refreshed me so much, and seemed to ease my aching brain.
“And have they all tasted of a slightly bitter flavor, like that of dried orange-peel?”
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