单词 | taster |
释义 | taster/ˈteɪstə /noun 1A person employed to test food or drink for quality by tasting it: a tea taster...
1.1A small cup used by a person tasting wine.In fact, it was a rare Charles II (1660-1680) silver wine taster. 1.2An instrument for extracting a small sample from within a cheese.This magician will tirelessly sample the cheese in the making, estimate the flexibility of the paste, evaluate the intensity of the Penicillium roqueforti with a cheese taster. 2British A small quantity or brief experience of something, intended as a sample: the song is a taster for the band’s new LP...
OriginLate Middle English: in early use from Anglo-Norman French tastour, from Old French taster 'to taste'; later from taste + -er1. Rhymes |
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