taste

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To please you, she knows how to choose a nice bit; For her taste is almost as refined as her wit.

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  1. transitive verb To distinguish the flavor of by taking into the mouth.
  2. transitive verb To eat or drink a small quantity of.
  3. transitive verb To partake of, especially for the first time; experience.

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quality ·  feel ·  habit ·  knowledge ·  beauty ·  smell ·  style ·  genius ·  judgment ·  expression

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taste:   tastes ·  tasted ·  tasting
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  1. Middle English tasten, to touch, taste, from Old French taster, from Vulgar Latin *tastāre, probably alteration of Latin *taxāre, probably frequentative of tangere, to touch; see tag- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Early modern English also tast; from Middle English tasten, from Old French taster, French tâter = Old Spanish Provencal tastar = Italian tastare, touch, handle, probe, test, try, taste, for *taxitare, a new iterative of Latin taxare, touch sharply, from tangere, touch: see tangent, and cf. tax, task.
  2. from Middle English tast, taste, from Old French tast = Italian tasto, touch, feeling; from the verb: see taste, v.
  3. Origin obscure.
 

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