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单词 gusto
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guston.

Brit. /ˈɡʌstəʊ/, U.S. /ˈɡəstoʊ/
Etymology: Italian ‘taste’ = French goût n.3 < Latin gustus taste. Compare gust n.2
= 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.
4. Aesthetic appreciation or perception. Obsolete. rare.
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.
5. Flavour or savour (of food, etc.). Obsolete. rare.
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.
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