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spiced

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spice  (sps)
n.
1.
a. Any of various pungent, aromatic plant substances, such as cinnamon or nutmeg, used to flavor foods or beverages.
b. These substances considered as a group.
2. Something that adds zest or flavor.
3. A pungent aroma; a perfume.
tr.v. spiced, spic·ing, spic·es
1. To season with spices.
2. To add zest or flavor to.
[Middle English, from Old French espice, from Late Latin specis, wares, spices, from Latin, kind; see species.]
Translations
spiced [ˈspaɪst] adj [dish, sauce] → épicé(e)
spiced with sth → relevé(e) avec qch
spick and span spick-and-span [ˌspɪkənˈspæn] adj → impeccable
spiced
adj (Cook) savoury dish → würzig; sweet dish → aromatisch; spiced wine → Glühwein m; highly spiced → pikant (gewürzt); delicately spiced → delikat gewürzt


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With that sort of spiced food provided for his anxious thought, watchful for strange men, strange beasts, strange turns of the tide, he would make the best of his way up, a military seaman with a short sword on thigh and a bronze helmet on his head, the pioneer post- captain of an imperial fleet.
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As she sat beside the window, smoothing the letter out upon her knee, heavy and spiced odors stole in to her with the songs of birds and the humming of insects in the air.
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All are sated with this deep draught of pleasure, and eager to commence another trapping campaign; for hardship and hard work, spiced with the stimulants of wild adventures, and topped off with an annual frantic carousal, is the lot of the restless trapper.
The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, U.S.A., in the Rocky Mountains and the far West by Irving, Washington View in context
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