of the pure and essential essence of something: the quintessential Jewish delicatessen.
of or relating to the most perfect embodiment of something: the quintessential performance of the Brandenburg Concertos.
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Owner Caroline Cho aimed to capture the essence of Korea’s tented street pubs, called pojangmacha, or pocha, but the pandemic has temporarily shuttered this quintessential spot
We now think of jaguars and llamas as quintessential examples of South American wildlife, for example, but their ancestors came across the isthmus from North America.