taster
[tey-ster]
- a person who tastes, especially one skilled in distinguishing the qualities of liquors, tea, etc., by the taste.
- a container for taking samples or tasting.
- a wide shallow cup, usually metal, for holding wine to be tasted, as by a professional taster.
- a person employed or ordered to taste the food and drink prepared for a king, dictator, etc., to ascertain the presence of poison.
- Genetics. a person able to taste phenylthiourea or some other test substance.
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Origin of taster
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But every taster must take into his mouth some things that are unpleasant, and he did.
Recollections and ImpressionsOctavius Brooks Frothingham
"He is such a taster," she added, but particularized no more.
The Three Black PennysJoseph Hergesheimer
It has also to be remarked that Hunt is much better as a taster than as a professor or expounder.
Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860George Saintsbury
Happy, however, the taster whose crisis of penury coincides with the opening of the “Ham Fair”!
Paris and the Social RevolutionAlvan Francis Sanborn
But, to the possibly erroneous taste of the present taster, it does not seem to be a consummated consommé.
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2George Saintsbury
taster
- a person who samples food or drink for quality
- any device used in tasting or sampling
- a person employed, esp formerly, to taste food and drink prepared for a king, etc, to test for poison
- a sample or preview of a product, experience, etc, intended to stimulate interest in the product, experience, etc, itselfthe single serves as a taster for the band's new album
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