Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Having a pungent or fine flavor.

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Examples

  • Scoldings of “bad taste,” opinions that “he ought to have known better,” and intimations of “high-flavored Nevada delirium tremens” emanated from such publications as the Cincinnati Commercial, the Chicago Tribune, and the Springfield Massachusetts Republican.

    Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005

  • An extra-virgin olive oil, a roasted peanut oil, a sesame-flavored oil—just small amounts of these high-flavored ingredients can put the finishing touches on a recipe and elevate it from average to sublime.

    Eat, Drink, and Be Healthy M.D. Walter C. Willett 2005

  • An extra-virgin olive oil, a roasted peanut oil, a sesame-flavored oil—just small amounts of these high-flavored ingredients can put the finishing touches on a recipe and elevate it from average to sublime.

    Eat, Drink, and Be Healthy M.D. Walter C. Willett 2005

  • Scoldings of “bad taste,” opinions that “he ought to have known better,” and intimations of “high-flavored Nevada delirium tremens” emanated from such publications as the Cincinnati Commercial, the Chicago Tribune, and the Springfield Massachusetts Republican.

    Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005

  • For such persons a great huge canvas is too much, it is like sitting down alone to a roasted ox; and they do wisely, I think, to patronize small, high-flavored, delicate morceaux, such as the Duke has here.

    Little Travels and Roadside Sketches 2004

  • No bother about skimming off fat -- we liked our loaf rich as well as high-flavored.

    Dishes & Beverages of the Old South Martha McCulloch-Williams

  • Dantzic_; their accents flowing on in a soft ripple, -- never a wave, and never a calm; words nicely fitted, but never a colored phrase or a high-flavored epithet; they turn air into syllables so gracefully, that we find meaning for the music they make as we find faces in the coals and fairy palaces in the clouds.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 16, February, 1859 Various

  • Mr. Moon never proceeds to business without regaling his jury with good brandy and high-flavored cigars.

    An Outcast or, Virtue and Faith

  • This is a French recipe and is the most excellent of all the high-flavored condiments; it is made by _sun-drying_ thirty _old_, full grown cucumbers, which have first been pared and split, had the seeds taken out, been salted and let stand twenty-four hours.

    The Whitehouse Cookbook (1887) The Whole Comprising a Comprehensive Cyclopedia of Information for the Home Mrs. F.L. Gillette

  • The scene in these dark apartments, where many of the workmen are negroes, is especially high-flavored and like a chapter in _Vathek_.

    Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 25, April, 1873 Various

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