flavoring
[fley-ver-ing]
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Origin of flavoring
flavor
[fley-ver]
- taste, especially the distinctive taste of something as it is experienced in the mouth.
- a substance or extract that provides a particular taste; flavoring.
- the characteristic quality of a thing: He captured the flavor of the experience in his book.
- a particular quality noticeable in a thing: language with a strong nautical flavor.
- Physics. any of the six labels given to the distinct kinds of quark: up, down, strange, charm, bottom, and top.
- Archaic. smell, odor, or aroma.
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- to give flavor to (something).
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Also especially British, fla·vour.
Origin of flavor
Synonyms
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Examples from the Web for flavoring
Contemporary Examples
A perfectly roasted legume has a compact crunch that absorbs any flavoring you coat it with.
Historical Examples
Add the flavoring, turn into a pan, and bake for about 40 minutes.
Woman's Institute Library of Cookery, Vol. 4Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and Sciences
The most important use of parsley is perhaps that of flavoring.
Woman's Institute Library of Cookery, Vol. 2Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and Sciences
This, then, was the flavoring which made the cup so intolerable.
The First ViolinJessie Fothergill
I used to think jelly fish were made of sea-calves' feet, and no flavoring.
Neighbor Nelly SocksSarah L. Barrow
The gravy should be retained for flavoring other gravies, sauces, etc.
Mushrooms: how to grow themWilliam Falconer
Word Origin and History for flavoring
n.
1845, "thing that gives flavor," verbal noun from flavor (v.). Middle English flauryng meant "perfume."
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flavor
flavor
n.
c.1300, "a smell, odor" (usually a pleasing one), from Old French flaour "smell, odor," from Vulgar Latin flator "odor," literally "that which blows," from Latin flator "blower," from flare "to blow, puff," which is cognate with Old English blawan (see blow (v.1)).
The same Vulgar Latin source produced Old Italian fiatore "a bad odor." Sense of "taste, savor" is 1690s, perhaps 1670s; originally "the element in taste which depends on the sense of smell." The -v- is perhaps from influence of savor.
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Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
flavor
[flā′vər]
- Any of six classifications of quark varieties, distinguished by mass and electric charge. The flavors have the names up, down, strange, charm, top, and bottom. Protons in atomic nuclei are composed of two up quarks and one down quark, while neutrons consist of one up quark and two down quarks. The flavor of a quark may be changed in interactions involving the weak force.
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