degust

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degust

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From French déguster. Doublet of degustate.

verb degusts · degusting · degusted

To taste carefully to fully appreciate something; to savour 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

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@misc{degust_2026,
  title = {degust},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/degust},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}