flavour
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English
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Pronunciation
Noun
flavour (countable and uncountable, plural flavours)
- British standard spelling of flavor.
- The flavour of this apple pie is delicious.
- Flavour was added to the pudding.
- What flavour of bubble gum do you enjoy?
- The flavour of an experience.
- Debian is one flavour of the Linux operating system.
- 2014, Robert Kelly, Chung Wah Chow, Taiwan, 9th edition, Lonely Planet, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 256:
- Ciaotou Sugar Factory
(橋頭糖廠, Qiáotóu Tángchǎng) Ciaotou consists of a defunct factory (which you can walk into, and explore the old mechanisms and vats) and an old village that retains most of its early-20th-century flavour.
- 2022 November 2, Paul Bigland, “New trains, old trains, and splendid scenery”, in RAIL, number 969, pages 56–57:
- The journey is worth an article in itself, but all I can give is a flavour of a railway which traverses a bleak but dramatic coastline that's regularly battered by the elements - especially around Parton, where the line is constantly threatened by the sea.
Verb
flavour (third-person singular simple present flavours, present participle flavouring, simple past and past participle flavoured)
Middle English
Alternative forms
Etymology
Borrowed from Old French flaor, flaour, from Vulgar Latin *flātor. Medial -v- is due to the influence of savour (“taste”).
Pronunciation
Noun
flavour
- odour (generally pleasing)
Descendants
References
- “flāvǒur, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
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