† taste-papern.Obsolete in the (old) Greats examination at Oxford, the paper in which passages were set from the classical authors for critical and exegetical treatment.
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1860 T. HughesTom Brown at Oxf. II. viii. 134 In the taste paper.., as they compare notes, he seems to have almost struck the bull's-eye in his answers.