degustate
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degustate
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First attested in 1599; borrowed from Latin dēgustātus, perfect passive participle of dēgustō, see -ate (verb-forming suffix). Doublet of degust.
verb degustates · degustating · degustated
- To taste or eat. Sceptics were they who, revelling at the table of Louis XIV in the sauces of a Bechamel, or lingering at the board of the great Condé over the chefs d'œuvre of a Vatel—that illustrious martyr to a point of culinary honour!—or inhaling gently and delicately, and degustating slowly, and with marvellou
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