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"text": "I add zest to the meat by rubbing it with a spice mixture before grilling.",
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"ref": "1959, Peter De Vries, The Tents of Wickedness, Boston: Little, Brown & Co., The Treehouse, Chapter 7, page 92",
"text": "He rolled his own cigarettes from a sack of Bull Durham, spilling flakes into his beer, which no doubt gained in zest thereby.",
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"ref": "1978, Isaac Bashevis Singer, translated by Joseph Singer et al., Shosha, New York: Fawcett Crest, Part One, Chapter Five, 1, p. 99",
"text": "Bashele’s dishes tasted as good as they had when I was a child. No one could give to the borscht such a sweet-and-sour zest as Bashele.",
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"text": "Auntie Mame had a real zest for life.",
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"text": "1728, Edward Young, Love of Fame, the Universal Passion, Satire II in The Works of the Reverend Edward Young, London: P. Brown, H. Hill & S. Payne, 1765, Volume I, p. 85,\nAlmighty vanity! to thee they owe\nTheir zest of pleasure, and their balm of woe."
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"text": "1807, Thomas Cogan, An Ethical Treatise on the Passions, Bath: Hazard & Binns, Part 1, Disquisition 1, Chapter 1, Section 1 “On the utility of the Passions and Affections,” p. 51,\nLiberality of disposition and conduct gives the highest zest and relish to social intercourse."
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"ref": "1962, James Baldwin, Another Country, New York: Dell, published 1963, Book Two, Chapter 2, p. 221",
"text": "The singers, male and female, wore blue jeans and long hair and had more zest than talent.",
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"ref": "2008 January–February, “70 Ways to Improve Every Day of the Week”, in Men's Health, volume 23, number 1, →ISSN, page 135",
"text": "59 sneak in some red Smuggle a bottle of wine, two glasses, and a corkscrew into a long matinee. Red wine is rich in life-extending antioxidants, and the caper will add zest even to a bad movie.",
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"ref": "1792, James Cobb, The Siege of Belgrade, a Comic Opera, in Three Acts, page 47",
"text": "Strains ſo artleſs tho’ we proffer,\nHearts o’er flowing zest the offer.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To make more zesty."
],
"links": [
[
"zesty",
"zesty"
]
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/zɛst/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɛst"
},
{
"audio": "en-us-zest.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/0/04/En-us-zest.ogg/En-us-zest.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/04/En-us-zest.ogg",
"tags": [
"US"
],
"text": "Audio (US)"
}
],
"word": "zest"
}
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