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flavorous, a.|ˈfleɪvərəs|
Also flavourous.
[f. next + -ous: cf. humorous.]
1. Full of flavour; pleasing to the taste and smell, savoury; ‘fragrant, odorous’ (J.).
1697Dryden Virg. Georg. ii. 326 Fruits, declin'd From their first flav'rous Taste. 1725Pope Odyss. ii. 386 Pure flav'rous wine. 1819H. Busk Tea 136 The flavorous drop Affection's hand instils. 1847Blackw. Mag. LXII. 609 The addition to the daily stew of a bird or beast unusually flavorous.
fig.1740A. Hill Let. in A. L. Barbauld Richardson's Life & Corr. (1804) I. 50 Sheath the two contraries in a flavorous and spirited smoothness. 1888P. Cushing Blacksmith of Voe II. iv. 98 Women found something unusually flavorous in this piece of gossip.
2. fig. Having a flavour of. rare—1.
1885G. S. Merriam Life S. Bowles I. ii. 14 Ancient villages, flavorous of the olden time. |