"biscuitiness" meaning in English

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Noun

Etymology: From biscuity + -ness. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|biscuity|ness}} biscuity + -ness Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} biscuitiness (uncountable)
  1. The quality of being biscuity. Tags: uncountable
    Sense id: en-biscuitiness-en-noun-U2KKjUkH Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ness

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          "text": "They said, you know, the parliamentarians, as soon as we started having a Celtic P.M. that it would bring the spice of romance on to the dry biscuit of statecraft—and the politic-men do so love biscuitiness!—but even they can’t have guessed what romance.",
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          "ref": "1987 September 26, Roger Voss, “Suaver Soaves”, in The Daily Telegraph, number 41,137, page IV",
          "text": "Nor does the revolution in Italian white wine making stop with the familiar names. It continues in the fragrant bouquet and greengage-tart fruit on the Lugana Villa Flora 1986 (Arthur Rackhams, £3.99; Waitrose, £3.59); in the delicious almond-biscuitiness of the Vernaccia di San Gimignano 1986 of San Quirico (Sainsbury’s Vintage Selection, £3.45); or, from northern Italy where German ideas meet Italian, in the Sylvaner 1985 from Herbert Tiefenbrunner, with its perfumed, light, fragrant fruit (Tesco, £3.25).",
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          "ref": "1988, Serena Sutcliffe, Champagne: The History and Character of the World’s Most Celebrated Wine, Simon and Schuster, page 91",
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          "ref": "1988, Decanter, page 99",
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          "ref": "1996 November 23, Bill Pritchard, “Warming spirit and a spirited sparkler to try”, in Burton Mail, number 30,877, page 3",
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          "ref": "1996, Robert Joseph, The Ultimate Encyclopedia of Wine, Prion, published 1999, page 183",
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          "ref": "2013 February, Renee Allen, “Pretty in Pink”, in Connecticut Magazine, page 60",
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          "ref": "2016, Antonio García Martínez, Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley, Harper, page 350",
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          "ref": "2017, Ben McFarland, Tom Sandham, World’s Best Beers: 1000 Unmissable Brews from Portland to Prague, 2nd edition, Jacqui Small, published 2019, page 120",
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