savory

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A hot savory and a cold salad make a good combination for the summer luncheon, and the savory is a useful dish for the disposition of left-over scraps of meat, fish, etc.

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  1. adjective Appetizing to the taste or smell: a savory stew.
  2. adjective Piquant, pungent, or salty to the taste; not sweet.
  3. adjective Morally respectable; inoffensive: a past that was scarcely savory.
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  • The air in the ward was none too savory, the company none too stimulating. —  FSF - March2006
  • The taste of the food on her tongue seemed particularly savory, and the mead, now her favorite drink, filled her with a sense of well-being Martha had just laced her stomacher and was adjusting the small round ruff at Pippa's neck when there was a knock at the door. —  KISSED BY SHADOWS
  • I bought new spices -- savory, anise, cumin, cracked black pepper -- and packaged macaroni and cheese and powdered soups. —  F ;SF; - vol 100 issue 01 - January 2001
  • The overall taste is almost more sweet than savory, all coming from the vegetables 'natural sugars. —  Not Eating Out in New York
  • As for the savory / sweet thing -- I think combining the two is often the way to go. —  The Amateur Gourmet
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appetizing ·  savoury ·  spicy ·  succulent ·  tasty ·  toothsome ·  tangy ·  delicious ·  meaty ·  luscious ·  salty ·  delectable
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English savure, from Old French savoure, past participle of savourer, to taste, from Late Latin sapōrāre, from Latin sapor, flavor; see savor.
  2. Middle English saverey, alteration of Old French sarree, alteration of Latin saturēia.

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  1. Early modern English also savorie, savery; from Middle English savery, saverey, savereye, saveray, saferay, from Old French savoree, also sadree, sadariege, saturige (later Middle English saturege), French savorée = Provencal sadreia = Spanish sagerida, axedrea = Portuguese segurelha, cigurelha, saturagem = Old Italian savoreggia, savorella, Italian santoreggia (with intrusive n), satureja = Middle English satureie = Middle Low German satureie = German saturei = Danish saturej = Polish czaber, czabr = Old Bulgarian shetraj, shetraja, from Latin satureia, savory: see Satureia. As with other plantnames of unobvious meaning, the word has suffered much variation in popular speech.
 

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