degust

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Now, if the soupe au vin had been known in Troy, it is clear that in declining vinum merum upon that score, he would have added in the hexameter, 'But a soupe au vin, madam, I will degust, and gratefully.'

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  1. transitive verb To taste with relish; savor.

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  • Now, if the soupe au vin had been known in Troy, it is clear that in declining vinum merum upon that score, he would have added in the hexameter, 'But a soupe au vin, madam, I will degust, and gratefully.' —  The Cloister and the Hearth
 

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  1. Latin dēgustāre : dē-, de- + gustāre, to taste; see geus- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Latin degustare, taste of, from de- + gustare, taste: see gust.
 

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