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‖ soupçon|supsɔ̃|
[F., repr. OF. soupeçon, souspeçon:—pop. L. suspectiōn-, suspectio for suspicio suspicion n.]
A suspicion, a suggestion, a very small quantity or slight trace, of something.
1766H. Walpole Lett. (1857) V. 16 Wesley is a lean elderly man, fresh-coloured, his hair smoothly combed, but with a soupçon of curl at the ends. 1838Miss Maitland Let. Madras (1843) 235 We are now writing dialogues for the natives..on different subjects, just to give them a soupçon of sense. 1849[Eastwick] Dry Leaves 170 Any one who has the smallest soupçon of justice in his composition. 1884Sir H. Hawkins in Law Times Rep. L. 814/1 Nobody would suppose there was even a soupçon of a gambling character about the establishment. |