Meaning of degust | Babel Free

Definitions

To taste carefully to fully appreciate something; to savour

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Examples

“If wine is to withdraw⟳ its most poetic countenance, the sun of the white dinner-cloth, a deity to be invoked by two or three, all fervent, hushing their talk⟳, degusting tenderly and storing reminiscences &emdash; for a bottle of good wine, like⟳ a good act, shines ever in the retrospect — if wine is to desert us, go thy ways, old Jack! Now we begin⟳ to have⟳ compunctions, and look⟳ back at the brave bottles squandered upon dinner-parties, where the guests drank grossly, discussing politics the while, and even the schoolboy "took his whack," like⟳ liquorice water.”

“The bread was passing stale the cheese a trifle hard the beer somewhat flat but the pair had never degusted a meal with more relish.”

“I began to tell⟳ him all the tale of the demons, at which relation, first of all, he cried "Pshaw!"... But after he had degusted the matter⟳ a little he bade me repeat⟳ it all again from the beginning...”

“He took the bottle filled up his glass half full and degusted it, *en connoisseur*, and said it is good but mine at home is better, it is older”

“as the bird soars once more, the observer may see⟳ it [the fish⟳] being slowly degusted.”

“Sentiment, the inward working of emotion, does not issue⟳ in action, and so becomes mere sentimentality, to be lingered over, sipped, and degusted, for its own⟳ sake.”

“This book is meant to help⟳ you along in your own⟳ quest for cheese, and I hope⟳ that you do taste⟳ the cheeses that you read⟳ about. By the time you finish⟳ this book you should have⟳ degusted a lot of wonderful cheese.”

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