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• a variation of flavor.

flavour

American  

[fley-ver] / ˈfleɪ vər /

noun

Chiefly British.

1. flavor.

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flavour British  

/ ˈfleɪvə /

noun

1. taste perceived in food or liquid in the mouth

2. a substance added to food, etc, to impart a specific taste

3. a distinctive quality or atmosphere; suggestion

   a poem with a Shakespearean flavour

4. a type or variety

   various flavours of graphical interface

5. physics a property of quarks that enables them to be differentiated into six types: up, down, strange, charm, bottom (or beauty), and top (or truth)

6. a person or thing that is the most popular at a certain time

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verb

1. (tr) to impart a flavour, taste, or quality to

Spelling

See -or ¹.

Other Word Forms

• flavourer
  noun
• flavourless
  adjective
• flavoursome
  adjective

Etymology

Origin of flavour

C14: from Old French flaour , from Late Latin flātor (unattested) bad smell, breath, from Latin flāre to blow

Example Sentences

But in researching 2017's "The Flavour of Spice," Reshii encountered some details even she wasn't expecting.

From Salon • Sep. 11, 2023

Yet 200g - half the weight - of Violife's "Epic Mature Cheddar Flavour Block Vegan Alternative to Cheese" costs £2.75.

From BBC • Nov. 16, 2022

I was trying to recapture what was wrong with so much recipe writing before How to Eat when my eye fell on Passion for Flavour by Gordon Ramsay, first published in 1996.

From The Guardian • Oct. 6, 2018

In his “Eating With Our Ears,” an article published in the 2015 journal Flavour, he relates the specifics of late-1980s market research on the chocolate coating for Magnum brand ice cream bars.

From Washington Post • Jan. 15, 2016

This Remedy is of the most grateful Flavour in the World, and agrees with all Tastes whatever.

From A Century of English Essays An Anthology Ranging from Caxton to R. L. Stevenson & the Writers of Our Own Time by Rhys, Ernest