"degust" meaning in All languages combined

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  "etymology_text": "From French déguster.",
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          "ref": "1883, R.L. Stevenson, “Napa wine”, in The Silverado Squatters, Chatto and Windus, →ISBN, page 35f.:",
          "text": "If wine is to withdraw its most poetic countenance, the sun of the white dinner-cloth, a deity to be invoked by two or three, all fervent, hushing their talk, degusting tenderly and storing reminiscences &emdash; for a bottle of good wine, like a good act, shines ever in the retrospect — if wine is to desert us, go thy ways, old Jack! Now we begin to have compunctions, and look back at the brave bottles squandered upon dinner-parties, where the guests drank grossly, discussing politics the while, and even the schoolboy \"took his whack,\" like liquorice water.",
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        {
          "ref": "1892, M. Betham-Edwards, A north-country comedy, J.B. Lippincott, page 17:",
          "text": "The bread was passing stale the cheese a trifle hard the beer somewhat flat but the pair had never degusted a meal with more relish.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1895, O. Crawfurd, Chapman's Magazine of Fiction, volume 1, Chapman & Hall, page 269:",
          "text": "I began to tell him all the tale of the demons, at which relation, first of all, he cried \"Pshaw!\"... But after he had degusted the matter a little he bade me repeat it all again from the beginning...",
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        {
          "ref": "1898, L. Menand, Autobiography and Recollections of Incidents Connected with Horticultural Affairs, page 78:",
          "text": "He took the bottle filled up his glass half full and degusted it, *en connoisseur*, and said it is good but mine at home is better, it is older",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1904, F.T. Bullen, Creatures of the Sea: Being the Life Stories of Some Sea Beasts and Fishes, Religious Tract Society, page 409:",
          "text": "as the bird soars once more, the observer may see it [the fish] being slowly degusted.",
          "type": "quote"
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          "ref": "1912, S.L. Wolff, The Greek Romances in Elizabethan Prose Fiction, Columbia University Press, →ISBN, page 4:",
          "text": "Sentiment, the inward working of emotion, does not issue in action, and so becomes mere sentimentality, to be lingered over, sipped, and degusted, for its own sake.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2008, J. Hurt, S. Ehlers, “Introduction”, in The Complete Idiot's Guide to Cheeses of the World: A Tasteful Guide to Selecting, Serving, and Enjoying Cheese, DK Publishing, →ISBN, page 27:",
          "text": "This book is meant to help you along in your own quest for cheese, and I hope that you do taste the cheeses that you read about. By the time you finish this book you should have degusted a lot of wonderful cheese.",
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      "glosses": [
        "To taste carefully to fully appreciate something; to savour"
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          "taste"
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          "savour",
          "savour"
        ]
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      "related": [
        {
          "word": "degustation"
        }
      ]
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          "type": "quote"
        },
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          "ref": "1904, F.T. Bullen, Creatures of the Sea: Being the Life Stories of Some Sea Beasts and Fishes, Religious Tract Society, page 409:",
          "text": "as the bird soars once more, the observer may see it [the fish] being slowly degusted.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1912, S.L. Wolff, The Greek Romances in Elizabethan Prose Fiction, Columbia University Press, →ISBN, page 4:",
          "text": "Sentiment, the inward working of emotion, does not issue in action, and so becomes mere sentimentality, to be lingered over, sipped, and degusted, for its own sake.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2008, J. Hurt, S. Ehlers, “Introduction”, in The Complete Idiot's Guide to Cheeses of the World: A Tasteful Guide to Selecting, Serving, and Enjoying Cheese, DK Publishing, →ISBN, page 27:",
          "text": "This book is meant to help you along in your own quest for cheese, and I hope that you do taste the cheeses that you read about. By the time you finish this book you should have degusted a lot of wonderful cheese.",
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        }
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