palaten.adj.

Brit.

/ˈpalət/, U.S.

/ˈpælət/

Forms: Middle English palete, Middle English palette, Middle English plate, Middle English–1600s palat, Middle English–1600s palet, Middle English– palate, 1500s–1700s pallat, 1500s–1700s pallate, 1600s pallet, 1600s pallett.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin palātum.

Etymology: < classical Latin palātum roof of the mouth, palate, sense of taste, in post-classical Latin also mental or spiritual taste (5th cent. in Augustine), of unknown origin (perhaps related to Etruscan falandum sky). Compare Anglo-Norman palet , Old French, Middle French palat roof of the mouth (early 14th cent., French regional (Nice) palat ), Italian palato (a1292 in sense ‘taste’, 14th cent. in sense ‘roof of the mouth’). Compare palace n.²In sense A. 3, after post-classical use of Latin palatum by early botanists such as Dillenius (e.g. Hortus Elthamensis (1732) 200), Tournefort, and Linnaeus. It may have arisen from taking the Latin word in the wider sense of German Gaumen , Swedish gom , etc. (see gum n.¹).

A. n.

a. The roof of the mouth (in humans and vertebrates generally); the structures of bone and flesh which separate the cavity of the mouth from that of the nose.bony, cleft, hard, soft palate: see the first element. veil of the palate: see veil n.¹ 6b.

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the world > life > the body > digestive or excretive organs > digestive organs > mouth > [noun] > palate

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roofOE

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palacea1450

a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) Lament. iv. 4 Cleuede-to þe tunge of the soukende to his palet in þrist [L. ad palatum eius in siti].

a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 92 Hote fumositees & smoke..strippiþ þe palat [L. palatum] of þe mouþ.

?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (Hunterian) f. 48^v (MED) Þe partikels of þe mouþe..ben fiue in noumber: þe lippes..þe teþe, þe tunge, þe palate of þe mouþe, and þe vuula.

tr. Palladius De re Rustica (Duke Humfrey) (1896) iv. 785 (MED) Thus tamed, her palate and mouthis frote With saltis and salt grees pound; pecis take And iij of hem putte in thyn oxen throte.

a1500 St. Jerome (Lamb.) in Anglia (1880) 3 333 (MED) The tung mot not cleve to the palate.

1598 A. M. tr. J. Guillemeau Frenche Chirurg. 24 b/2 The pallate or Vvula of the mouth.

1632 G. Sandys tr. Ovid Metamorphosis (new ed.) iii. 83 Th' invenom'd gore, which from his palate bled, Converts the grasse into a duskie red.

1668 Bp. J. Wilkins Ess. Real Char. iii. xii. 367 (Ng) is framed by an appulse of the Root of the Tongue towards the inner part of the Palat.

1739 D. Hume Treat. Human Nature II. i. 22 The nerves of the nose and palate are so dispos'd, as in certain circumstances to convey such peculiar sensations to the mind.

a1769 W. Falconer Poet. Wks. (1796) iii. 81 The last faint accents trembled on his tongue, That now inactive to the palate clung.

1824 J. Hogg Private Mem. Justified Sinner 201 My tongue and palate became dry and speechless.

1844 T. H. Key Alphabet 25 M, n, ng..sounds depending partly upon the nose, and partly upon the lips, teeth, and palate, respectively.

1939 T. L. Green Pract. Animal Biol. i. 153 Make a drawing of the ventral surface of the skull to show the palate and base of the skull.

1957 P. White Voss x. 272 How the speaker hated the name, and would roll it between his tongue and his palate..as if to gather up a bad taste, and spit it out.

1989 A. Burgess Any Old Iron iii. 123 The dog..yawned, showing a clean tongue and a pink ribbed palate.

b. In phrases referring to a relaxed or enlarged soft palate or uvula, esp. as falling down of the palate, fallen palate. Now rare (U.S. regional in later use).

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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disorders of mouth > [noun] > disorders of uvula

spean1527

uvula1541

falling down of the palate1664

uvulitis1842

?c1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (Paris) (1971) 23 Of sikenessis of þe gomes and of þe parties þerof: as, of swellynge and of fallynge of þe palate [?a1425 N.Y. Acad. Med. fallyng of vuule; L. casu vuule].

a1625 J. Fletcher Loyal Subj. iii. ii, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Eee2^v/1 Your Pallat's downe sir.

1664 S. Pepys Diary 23 Sept. (1971) V. 278 My cold and pain in my head increasing and the palate of my mouth falling, I was in great pain.

1684 A. Littleton Linguæ Latinæ Liber Dictionarius (new ed.) Columella, the swelling of the uvula, or falling down of the palate of the mouth.

1688 G. Miege Great French Dict. i. sig. Ll3/1 Avoir la Luette abattue, to have the palate of the Mouth down.

a1729 E. Taylor Poems (1960) 205 Ill Tongue, Mouth Ulcers, Frog, the Quinsie Throate The Palate Fallen.

1767 A. Yonge Husbandman's Compan. 30 Thrust your hand into the beast's mouth, and if there be any blister risen, or the palate fallen, rub the one away, and put up the other.

1835 J. F. Cooper Monikins II. i. 9 Of service in seeing in the dark, in smelling when the operator had a bad cold, in tasting when the palate was down.

1893 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon at Palate Falling down of palate, a term for a relaxed uvula.

1901 Jrnl. Amer. Folk-lore 14 33 For ‘fallen palate’, the hair on top of the patient's head is grasped and pulled ‘till it pops’, the patient at the same time being made to swallow twice.

1966 Louisiana Folklore Misc. May 57 The leveurs de luette of whom there are many, treat for fallen palate or uvuloptosis.

c. Cookery. The palate of an animal, esp. of a bullock, as an item of food. Now historical.

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1655 in D. Yaxley Researcher's Gloss. Hist. Documents E. Anglia (2003) 145 Pallates and sheepes Tongues 2s. 6d... 3 doz ½ Pigeons & 3 pallates.

1747 H. Glasse Art of Cookery ii. 23 After boiling your Palates very tender..blanch them and scrape them clean.

a1756 E. Haywood New Present (1771) 167 To fricasey Ox Palates.

1791 J. Boswell Life Johnson anno 1763 I. 255 I remember, when he was in Scotland, his praising ‘Gordon's palates’, (a dish of palates at the Honourable Alexander Gordon's,) with a warmth of expression which might have done honour to more important subjects.

1973 C. A. Wilson Food & Drink in Brit. ii. 55 Mid-seventeenth-century recipes show them [sc. anchovies] boiled with a neat's tongue or beef palates, or in a salad with slices of cold breast of hen or capon.

a. The palate (sense A. 1a) considered as the seat of taste; (hence) the sense of taste; a sense of appreciation of taste and flavour, esp. when sophisticated and discriminating.

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the world > physical sensation > taste and flavour > [noun] > sense of taste

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a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 293 Plinius spekeþ of mys and seiþ þat..here palate is perfyte in taste.

c1400 Femina (Trin. Cambr.) (1909) 16 (MED) In þe mouþ on heyȝgh ys þe palet [Fr. pallet] To taste ȝour þynges foule oþer clene.

c1450 (c1400) Bk. Vices & Virtues (Huntington) (1942) 53 (MED) Þey mow make of o þing many manere seruyses and al for to sauoure wel in þe palet of þe mouþ.

1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. EEii Bredde to a sore mouthe is sharpe and harde, whiche to a hole palat is swete and plesaunt.

1568 T. Drant tr. Gregory of Nazianzus Epigr. & Sentences sig. B.ii The sweate that makes the pallate faine.

1600 W. Shakespeare Merchant of Venice iv. i. 95 Let their pallats be seasond with such viands.

1642 T. Fuller Holy State iii. xiii. 184 As soon may the same meat please all palats.

1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 409. ¶2 Every different Flavour that affects the Palate.

1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones I. i. i. 2 Men who pay for what they eat, will insist on gratifying their Palates .

1792 J. Byng Diary 9 June in C. B. Andrews Torrington Diaries (1936) III. 57 I think I have met with very good port wine in this journey; or may have lost my palate.

1823 J. Badcock Domest. Amusem. 16 Meats that require salt,..according to the palate of the consumers.

1851 N. Hawthorne House of Seven Gables x The margin of Maule's well..was haunted by a kind of snail, evidently a titbit to their [sc. hens'] palates.

1918 W. Cather My Ántonia ii. xii. 247 Jelinek kept rye bread on hand, and smoked fish and strong imported cheeses to please the foreign palate.

1988 W. M. Clarke Secret Life Wilkie Collins xiii. 162 He insisted that nothing the palate relished could be hurtful to the system.

2003 N.Y. Times Mag. 4 May 64/1 My poor mother, eager to please four children whose palates had already been ruined by the food technologists (and school lunch ladies).

b. figurative. Mental taste, liking, or affinity.

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the mind > emotion > love > liking or favourable regard > [noun] > fact of being to one's taste > taste (for something)

savour?c1225

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R. Misyn tr. R. Rolle Fire of Love 90 (MED) Þa haue..þe palate of þe hart filyd with feuyr of wykkyd lufe, qwarfor þai may not fele swetnes of heuenly Ioy.

1598 J. Marston Scourge of Villanie To Perusers sig. B4 For whose vnseasond pallate I wrote the first Satyre.

1609 W. Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida i. iii. 332 Here the Troyans tast our deerst repute, With their fin'st pallat .

1644 J. Milton Areopagitica 7 Any subject that was not to their palat, they..condemn'd.

1648 R. Herrick Hesperides 171 Till thy voice be cleare, 'Twill never please the pallate of mine eare.

1702 R. Cocks Diary 19 Feb. in D. W. Hayton Parl. Diary (1996) 220 As if it was made in another place fitted for the humour and pallate of those that could not digest the abjuration oath.

1745 E. Young Consolation 102 Thou, to whose Palate Glory is so sweet.

1793 C. Burney Let. 3 Apr. in Corr. G. Steevens (MS, Folger Shakespeare Libr.) I can think of no literary dainty that wd have been so grateful to my mental palate.

1810 T. Jefferson Let. 12 Aug. in Writings (1984) 1229 This work is so unpopular, so distasteful to the present Tory palates and principles of England, that I believe it has never reached a second edition.

1831 T. L. Peacock Crotchet Castle iv. 71 I speak of the cruet sauces... I can taste in my mind's palate a combination, which, if I could give it reality, I would christen with the name of my college.

1876 ‘G. Eliot’ Daniel Deronda III. vi. xlvi. 307 I heard a little too much preaching,..and lost my palate for it.

1911 L. A. Tollemache Nuts & Chestnuts 79 As if the moral palate of Philosophers were used and inured to..divers meats.

1986 A. Massie Colette ii. 40 The friends were attracted by her beauty, her innocence, her apparent helplessness; no doubt their jaded palates were refreshed by her spontaneity.

c. In extended use: flavour, taste; spec. with reference to wine or beer. Cf. nose n. 2c.

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the world > physical sensation > taste and flavour > [noun]

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savour?c1225

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tastea1382

sentimentc1400

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sapor1477

verdurea1513

verdour1526

relish1530

verder1532

gustc1540

waft1542

smacker1549

talent1550

tack1602

tache1607

tincture1610

twang1611

foretaster1632

flavour1693

gusto1713

goût1751

saporosity1794

gustativeness1827

savouring1840

sipidity1880

palate1973

1973 F. Baillie Beer Drinker's Compan. viii. 259 Double Diamond is a keg beer with a sweet palate.

1989 Decanter Nov. 73/2 The palate has penetrating fruit, hints of liquorice and cinnamon and a long, faintly bitter, finish.

2001 Austral. Gourmet Traveller Aug. 90/2 2000 Pipers Brook Gewürztraminer..has a bouquet of jasmine and lychee, a minerally palate and a dry finish.

3. Botany. In certain bilabiate flowers: a gibbous swelling of the lower lip which more or less closes the throat of the corolla, esp. in the genus Antirrhinum and several related genera of the family Scrophulariaceae.

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the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > flower or part containing reproductive organs > [noun] > parts of > lip

label1707

palate1760

labium1764

lip1776

1760 J. Lee Introd. Bot. iii. xxii. 223 Palatum, the Palate, is a Gibbosity or bunching out in the Faux of the Corolla.

1796 W. Withering Arrangem. Brit. Plants (ed. 3) III. 549 Antirrhinum Cymbalaria... Bloss. pale purple; palate yellow, shaggy with orange-coloured hairs.

1847 C. C. Babington Man. Brit. Bot. (ed. 2) 255 U[tricularia] vulgaris (L.); spur conical, upper lip of the cor. as long as the palate.

1880 A. Gray Struct. Bot. 248 A bilabiate corolla is..Personate, or masked, when the throat is closed, more or less, by a projection of the lower lip called the Palate.

1915 M. Armstrong & J. J. Thornber Field Bk. Western Wild Flowers 468 Sticky Snap-dragon... The flowers are half an inch long, the corolla pink with a yellow palate.

1976 Hortus Third (L. H. Bailey Hortorium) 734/2 Mimulus... Corolla 2-lipped to nearly regular, upper lip 2-lobed, lower lip 3-lobed, throat open, or closed by a palate.

1994 S. Afr. Jrnl. Bot. 60 211 It is characterized by..white flowers with red markings at the base of the upper corolla lobes, a glabrous, undulate palate and a deflexed spur.

4. Zoology. In various invertebrates: a part associated with the mouth or oral apparatus, in some respect analogous to the vertebrate palate; (Entomology) the hypopharynx of an insect. rare.

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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > parts of insects > [noun] > head > mouth-parts or trophi > epipharynx

palate1867

1867 J. Hogg Microscope (ed. 6) i. iii. 220 Entomological specimens such as..tongues, palates, corneæ, &c. show best in balsam.

1900 Amer. Naturalist 34 131 In the Cyclometopa [sc. a group containing various crabs]..there are nine pairs of branchiæ, their efferent channels opening at the sides of the endostome or palate.

1992 M. Stachowitsch Invertebr. 502/2 [In certain bryozoans:] Palate, rostrum.

†B. adj.

Pleasant to the palate or taste; palatable. Obsolete. rare.

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the world > physical sensation > taste and flavour > savouriness > [adjective]

likingeOE

goodOE

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deliciousa1325

daintya1382

dainteousc1386

daintiful1393

delicatea1398

merrya1398

savourlyc1400

liciousc1420

savourousa1425

daintethc1430

lustyc1430

feelsomea1450

nuttya1450

seasonablea1475

delicativec1475

unctuous1495

well-tasteda1500

daintive1526

savoury1533

exquisite1561

spicy1562

well-relished?1575

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taste-pleasinga1586

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relishsome1593

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well-relishing1608

neat1609

hungry1611

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tasteful1611

palatea1617

tastya1617

palatable1619

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sipid1623

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famelic1631

tasteablea1641

piquant1645

sapid1646

saporousa1670

slape1671

palativea1682

flavorous1697

nice1709

well-flavoured1717

gusty1721

flavoury1727

fine-palated1735

unrepulsive1787

degustatory1824

zesty1826

peckish1845

mouth-watering1847

flavoursome1853

unreasty1853

unrancida1855

relishy1864

toothy1864

flavoured1867

tasty-looking1867

hungrifying1886

velvety1888

snappy1892

zippy1911

savoursome1922

delish1953

a1617 S. Hieron Penance for Sinne in Wks. (1620) II. 210 The most perfit and palate wine (they say) doth make the quickest vinegar.

Compounds

C1.

a. General attributive.

palate defect n.

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1893 Jrnl. Royal Statist. Soc. 56 72 Columns are headed with the principal abnormal conditions, ‘Cranial abnormality’, ‘Palate defect’, ‘Expression defective’, &c.

1997 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 94 4145/1 These mice do die in the same time frame as those with palate defects.

† palate-myograph n. Obsolete

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the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > [noun] > instruments or diagrams

phthongometer1837

logograph1879

glossograph1883

palate-myograph1884

palatogram1902

tongue-curve1902

kymograph1918

voiceprint1918

vowel diagram1932

kymogram1934

speech stretcher1948

word-palatogram1948

recognizer1949

phonolaryngoscope1953

speech recognizer1953

grid1961

voiceprinter1966

1884 Amer. Naturalist 18 438 Dr. Allen calls his instrument the palate-myograph.

1890 J. S. Billings National Med. Dict. II. 277 Palate-myograph, an instrument for recording graphically the motions of the soft palate in speaking.

palate-plate n.

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1782 Monro's Anat. Human Bones (new ed.) 102 The palate-plate is cribriform about the middle.

1868 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 158 229 The roof of the mouth..was divided..by a prominent keel, formed by the inner border of the palate-plate of the superior maxillary as it overlapped the vomer.

palate pleasure n.

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1638 T. Whitaker Blood of Grape 48 I speake not phantastically, or from any palate-pleasure.

1653 I. Walton Compl. Angler xiii The Romans have esteemed her [sc. the eel] the Helena of their feasts; and some the queen of palate-pleasure.

1985 Record (Bergen County, New Jersey) (Nexis) 9 June t10 For those who put palate pleasures at the top of the list, there is a two-week tour next fall.

b. Objective.

(a)

palate-cleanser n.

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1974 Times 11 Sept. 16/6 Where a dessert wine is to be served the cheese is really an essential palate cleanser.

2000 N.Y. Mag. 24 July 57/1 A garlicky Caesar with just the right twang of invisible anchovy and a Parmesan-crusted ‘twizzle’ is the perfect palate-cleanser.

palate-pleaser n.

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1620 T. Venner Via Recta iii. 52 I will here aduertise all pallat-pleasers, that they shall sooner surfet..with pork, then with any other flesh.

1876 Appletons' Jrnl. Aug. 106/2 This noble fruit is no mere palate-pleaser.

1992 Quebec Resorts & County Inns 1992–3 11/1 Our elegant dining room, regally presided over by our Chef, offers wonderful palate pleasers.

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† palate-biting adj. Obsolete

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1812 W. Tennant Anster Fair ii. viii. 29 Some bring..From Flushing's port the palate-biting gin.

palate-cleansing adj.

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1976 Times 18 May 14/5 The sorbet in the middle of a banquet, the palate-cleansing freshness of which [etc.].

2000 M. Evans et al. World Food: Italy 99 It's [sc. Campari] a red-coloured, spirit-based drink with a bitter, palate-cleansing taste.

palate-pleasing adj.

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the world > physical sensation > taste and flavour > savouriness > [adjective]

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goodOE

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delicatea1398

merrya1398

savourlyc1400

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savourousa1425

daintethc1430

lustyc1430

feelsomea1450

nuttya1450

seasonablea1475

delicativec1475

unctuous1495

well-tasteda1500

daintive1526

savoury1533

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spicy1562

well-relished?1575

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relishing1605

well-relishing1608

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hungry1611

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tasteful1611

palatea1617

tastya1617

palatable1619

toothful1622

sipid1623

unsoured1626

famelic1631

tasteablea1641

piquant1645

sapid1646

saporousa1670

slape1671

palativea1682

flavorous1697

nice1709

well-flavoured1717

gusty1721

flavoury1727

fine-palated1735

unrepulsive1787

degustatory1824

zesty1826

peckish1845

mouth-watering1847

flavoursome1853

unreasty1853

unrancida1855

relishy1864

toothy1864

flavoured1867

tasty-looking1867

hungrifying1886

velvety1888

snappy1892

zippy1911

savoursome1922

delish1953

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Suave,..sweet,..palate-pleasing, delicious.

1658 G. Starkey Natures Explic. Ep. to Rdr. sig. b2^v Ridiculous, (barely palat-pleasing) toyes.

1768 E. Lloyd Powers of Pen (ed. 2) 41 Farewell ye Palate-pleasing Cates! Ye Conserves! Sweetmeats! Pines and Dates!

1993 J. DeFrancis In Footsteps Genghis Khan xix. 219 An eye-popping, palate-pleasing, stomachstretching succession of dishes, accompanied by endless toasts of ‘whitedry’.

palate-soothing adj.

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1800 C. Lamb Let. 27 Dec. in Lett. C. & M. A. Lamb (1975) I. 264 The..palate soothing flesh of geese.

2001 Oregonian (Portland, Oregon) (Nexis) 7 Aug. fd1 Smith shares her palate-soothing Oregon spearmint ice cream and Cole her combination nectarine-apricot.

palate-tickling adj.

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1838 Bentley's Misc. Sept. 296 A relish for..palate-tickling food.

1994 Successful Retirement May 76/1 In tiny Rhode Island they pack one million people and several palate-tickling seafood celebrations.

C2.

palate bone n. Anatomy and Zoology a bone forming part of the palate or roof of the mouth of a vertebrate; spec. the palatine bone.

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the world > life > the body > structural parts > bone or bones > skull > parts of skull > [noun] > bones of mouth

os hyoides1578

palatines1623

palate bone1688

hyoid bone1763

tongue-bone1841

palatal bone1842

glossohyal1854

palatopterygoid1854

palatal1859

os hyoideum1869

mentomeckelian1871

postpalatal1871

hyoid1872

hyomandibular1873

interhyal1888

splanchnocranium1907

1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. xvii. 435/1 The Morbus Gallicus, or Noli me tangere, is a rottenness of the Palate Bone by the Whores Pox.

1741 A. Monro Anat. Human Bones (ed. 3) 138 Each palate-bone may..be divided into four Parts.

1876 Clin. Soc. Trans. 9 124 The horizontal plate of the palate-bone.

1958 W. E. Swinton Fossil Amphibians & Reptiles (ed. 2) vi. 28 There are teeth on several of the palate bones and their shape and structure suggest that the animal was a vegetarian.

1983 Jrnl. Pediatr. Surg. 18 175 Choanal atresia may be due to..extension of the sphenoid or palate bone.

† palate-man n. Obsolete an epicure; usually in plural.

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the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > gastronomy > [noun] > gastronome or epicure

viandera1556

sweet-lips1580

deipnosophist1581

feaster1585

epicure1586

friand1598

palatist1620

goinfre1643

palate-mana1661

palate-peoplea1661

bon-vivant1695

belly-critica1711

gourmand1758

turtle-eatera1774

connoisseur1796

gullet-fancier1805

gastrophilist1814

gastrologer1820

gastronomer1820

gastrophile1820

gourmet1820

palatician1821

gastrologist1822

gastronome1823

gastronomist1825

degustator1833

aristologist1835

opsophagist1854

gastrosoph1855

bon viveur1865

gastrosopher1894

foodist1906

foodie1980

a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Bucks. 128 Whether these tame be as good as wild-pheasants, I leave to Pallate men to decide.

1678 J. Ray tr. F. Willughby Ornithol. 168 Palate-men, and such as have skill in eating, do chiefly commend the Partridges Wing.

1780 S. Pegge Forme of Cury Pref. p. xix, (note) Dr. Fuller relates, that the tongue of carps were accounted by the ancient Roman palate-men most delicious meat.

† palate-people n. (with plural concord) Obsolete rare people who cultivate a refined taste for food and drink; epicures.

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