单词 | gusto |
释义 | guston. = taste n.1, in various senses. 1. Individual or particular liking, relish, or fondness. Const. for (also †in, †of). ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > love > liking or favourable regard > [noun] > fact of being to one's taste > taste (for something) savour?c1225 toothc1386 palate1435 taste1477 relish1590 gust1609 gusto1647 1647 Boyle in Birch Life in Wks. (1772) I. p. xliv Which [tobacco] tho' at first sucked in with reluctance barely to please the company, men afterwards find a gusto in, and are unable to leave off. 1651 J. Saint-Amard tr. F. Micanzio Life Father Paul sig. K5v He being but a young man himselfe, and one that did not abhor the ordinarie gustoes of his age. 1672 W. Wycherley Love in Wood i. ii Why should you force wine upon us? We are not all of your gusto. 1695 J. Dryden tr. C. A. Du Fresnoy De Arte Graphica 16 A Posture therefore must be chosen according to their gusto. 1715 tr. M.-C. d'Aulnoy Wks. 519 He had a particular Gusto for those sort of Performances. 1727 A. Pope et al. Περι Βαθους: Art of Sinking 11 in J. Swift et al. Misc.: Last Vol. Men of a nice and foppish Gusto, whom, after all, it is almost impossible to please. 1851 H. Mayo On Truths Pop. Superstit. (ed. 2) 2 I had planned going to a play to enjoy again the full gusto of scenic illusion. 1852 W. Jerdan Autobiogr. II. xiii. 162 He had a grand gusto for the society he liked. 1899 Q. Rev. Apr. 491 Some allowance must be made for different gustos. 2. Keen relish or enjoyment displayed in speech or action; zest.Becomes very common from the beginning of the 19th cent. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > excitement > pleasurable excitement > [noun] exaltationa1513 exhilaration1626 gusto1629 gust1635 warmth1749 zest1758 1629 J. Mabbe tr. C. de Fonseca Deuout Contempl. 190 More are the fumes & vapours that ascend vp from beneath [Hell], than those gustos, & contents which descend from aboue [Heauen]. 1656 Earl of Monmouth tr. T. Boccalini Ragguagli di Parnasso 198 Base beetles which spent their lives with much gusto amidst the filth of excrements. 1665 S. Pepys Diary 5 Nov. (1972) VI. 290 He read me, though with too much gusto, some little poems of his own. 1693 W. Congreve Old Batchelour i. i. 3 It adds a Gusto to an Amour. 1727 A. Hamilton New Acct. E. Indies I. p. xiv The Taste of those Times relished all he presented with a very good Gusto. 1808 W. Scott Let. 19 Nov. (1932) II. 131 We have been both dining and supping upon them [sc. herrings] with great gusto. 1866 ‘G. Eliot’ Felix Holt II. xxxi. 258 The second Tory joke was performed with much gusto. 1874 L. Stephen Hours in Libr. 1st Ser. 107 [He] seems to have thrown himself with special gusto into the character. 1892 R. L. Stevenson Across Plains xii. 310 No secret element of gusto warms up the sermon. 3. Art. Style in which a work of art is executed; artistic style; occasionally prevailing or fashionable style in matters of taste. Often with qualification, as great (= Italian gran gusto), high, noble. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > work of art > [noun] > artistic treatment or style gusto1662 composition1695 style1706 expression1715 goût1717 handling1719 touching1743 conduct1758 rhetoric1851 treatment1856 society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > work of art > [noun] > artistic treatment or style > types of grotesque1561 charging1569 gusto1662 grand manner1695 manner1706 flatnessa1719 style1801 low key1803 mannerism1803 daguerreotype1850 chic1851 conventionalization1880 Louis Philippe1908 stylization1908 convention1926 historicism1939 pop1958 1662 J. Evelyn Sculptura iii. 30 They us'd to carve out Letters and other Figures..but it was yet so rude, and their Gusto so depravd, that [etc.]. 1706 J. Savage tr. R. de Piles Art of Painting 19 In Painting, the grand Gusto, the Sublime, and the Marvellous are one and the same thing. 1712 J. James tr. A.-J. Dézallier d'Argenville Theory & Pract. Gardening 2 The Designs..are of very mean Gusto. 1747 Gentleman's Mag. Aug. 374/2 Yours [i.e. petticoats] are plain, which is after the grand gusto in structures of every kind. 1761 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy III. xii. 62 There is something of a hardness in his manner..but then there is such a greatness of gusto! 1819 C. Lamb in Examiner 7 Nov. 717/1 The gusto of Munden antiquates and ennobles what it touches. 1824 W. Hazlitt Sketches Pict.-galleries Eng. 92 We should think that in the gusto of form and a noble freedom of outline, Michael Angelo could hardly have surpassed this figure. 1847 J. Craig New Universal Dict. at Grand Grand gusto, in Painting, a term used to express that there is something very great and extraordinary in a picture, and calculated both to please and surprise. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > good taste > [noun] good tastea1400 sensea1616 epicurism1655 gusto1663 fancyc1665 sapience1667 taste1671 curiositya1684 niceness1698 gust1706 sensibility1735 connoissance1736 connoisseurship1749 tapinophoby1773 theoria1846 shibui1960 1663 B. Gerbier Counsel to Builders 106 The husband (after all his paines and Vexations) if he can turn all things to the best, will have (as the Italian saith) a sound gusto. 1709 Ld. Shaftesbury Moralists iii. iii. 240 Another, who has no Gusto of either sort, believes all those they call Virtuosi to be half-distracted. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > taste and flavour > [noun] smacka1000 savour?c1225 relesec1330 tastea1382 sentimentc1400 smatchc1400 taragec1407 tangc1440 weffec1440 tallage14.. sapor1477 verdurea1513 verdour1526 relish1530 verder1532 gustc1540 waft1542 smacker1549 talent1550 tack1602 tache1607 tincture1610 twang1611 foretaster1632 flavour1693 gusto1713 goût1751 saporosity1794 gustativeness1827 savouring1840 sipidity1880 palate1973 1713 W. Derham Physico-theol. iii. iv. 84 All sorts of pleasant Gusto's to gratify the Taste and Appetite even of the most luxurious. 1713 W. Derham Physico-theol. iv. i. 87 The Pleasures of delightful Odours, and relishing Gusto's. 1836 M. A. Holley Texas iv. 66 Melons of the richest gusto abound everywhere. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1629 |
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