[
UK
/flˈeɪvɐ/
]
NOUN
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the general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people
it had the smell of treason
a clergyman improved the tone of the meeting
the feel of the city excited him - (physics) the six kinds of quarks
- the taste experience when a savoury condiment is taken into the mouth
VERB
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lend flavor to
Season the chicken breast after roasting it
How To Use flavour In A Sentence
- No matter that there were no green beans or zucchinies or that bok choy is Asian not Mediterranean, minestrone is primarily a vegetable soup and so long as you have a couple of primary flavours right, the rest will take care of itself. At My Table
- This has a deep ruby colour and complex range of flavours. Thorsons Organic Wine Guide
- Steve maintains that the peppers give the bland turkey a piquant flavour.
- It gave the dish a very subtle flavour, that Port-Salut.
- It was hard to believe that something so simple could be so tasty, a creamy potato flavour that was concentrated by long slow cooking in olive oil, seasoned with the sweet tang of long cooked onions all morticed with beaten eggs. At My Table
- Condensed soups are pretty much just cans of flavour.
- There is no flavour to the pepperoni and it is altogether too tomatoey. The Sun
- In contrast, farmed rabbit has a less pronounced flavour but is often more tender than its cousin. Times, Sunday Times
- Any tartness and capers seemed to have abandoned this dish for a more elegant life, leaving a creamy, flavourless gloop on the plate.
- The common basis of all gumbos is the roux, a roughly equal combination of flour and fat cooked until very nearly burnt; it is the dark smoky roux that gives the gumbo its colour and flavour.