palate

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"'Tis no fine Madeira, my blood," said he, "such as I fancy your palate is acquainted with.

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  1. noun The roof of the mouth in vertebrates having a complete or partial separation of the oral and nasal cavities and consisting of the hard palate and the soft palate.
  2. noun Botany The projecting part on the lower lip of a bilabiate corolla that closes the throat, as in a snapdragon.
  3. noun The sense of taste: delicacies pleasing to the most refined palate.

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  • And if a vacuum system works for your palate, at an even lower cost, so much the better. —  The New Wine Consumer: Wine Brands
  • If your palate is already sullied by a cheap over-sugared coffee flavor, you might miss some of them. —  New York Press
  • The second defect is cleft palate, which is also related to air pollution but is easier to detect. —  Spero News
  • Rich and vibrant fruit on the palate, which is very similar to the nose. —  Tinto y Blanco
  • The first flavor to hit the palate is the hint of chocolate that pervades this entire cigar. —  Yale Daily News: Latest Issue
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  1. Middle English, from Old French palat, from Latin palātum, perhaps of Etruscan origin.

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  1. from Middle English palat, palet, from Old French palat, *palet (French palais, arising from a confusion between palais, palace, and *palet, *palé, the vernacular Old French form) = Italian palato (cf. Spanish Portuguese paladar, from Latin as if *palatare), from Latinpalatum, rarely palatus, the palate, the roof of the mouth.
  2. from palate, n.
 

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