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savoury or US savory Adjective 1. salty or spicy: savoury foods 2. attractive to the sense of taste or smell 3. pleasant or acceptable: one of the book's less savoury characters Noun pl -ries Chiefly Brit a savoury dish served before or after a meal savouriness or US
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savoury adjective 1. spicy, rich, delicious, tasty, luscious, palatable, tangy, dainty, delectable, mouthwatering, piquant, full-flavoured, scrumptious (informal) appetizing, toothsome, yummo Austral. (slang) << OPPOSITE tasteless adjective 2. wholesome, decent, respectable, honest, reputable, apple-pie (informal) << OPPOSITE disreputable |
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Each one talked to his neighbour; to his neighbour on the right during the soup, fish, and entree; to his neighbour on the left during the roast, sweet, and savoury. At the very moment that the squatter and his sons departed in the manner mentioned in the preceding chapter, two men were intently occupied in a swale that lay along the borders of a little run, just out of cannon-shot from the encampment, discussing the merits of a savoury bison's hump, that had been prepared for their palates with the utmost attention to the particular merits of that description of food. You get husky bread and sour drink by it; and he gets sausage of Lyons, veal in savoury jelly, white bread, strachino cheese, and good wine by it. |
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