flavorous
Americanadjective
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Weather permitting, it made—it still makes—the finest and most flavorous dried fruit ever eaten.
From Dishes & Beverages of the Old South by McCulloch-Williams, Martha
To this kind of stuff the addition of a small amount of some flavorous material is very useful.
From The Stock-Feeder's Manual the chemistry of food in relation to the breeding and feeding of live stock by Cameron, Charles Alexander, Sir
The queen, assiduous to her train assigns The sumptuous viands, and the flavorous wines.
From The Odyssey by Pope, Alexander
They were not particularly flavorous oysters as we know oysters on this side of the ocean.
From Europe Revised by Cobb, Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury)
It cannot be written but by a scholar and a gentleman; and no English gentleman in recent times has ever thought of birds except as flying targets, or flavorous dishes.
From Love's Meinie Three Lectures on Greek and English Birds by Ruskin, John
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