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Everyone also gets free refreshments in the form of sweets and other savouries from the businessmen.
Shubho Nobo Borsho! 2006
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Everyone also gets free refreshments in the form of sweets and other savouries from the businessmen.
Archive 2006-04-01 2006
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They were called chat, Indian street snacks, and "savouries," which are familiar things like pakora, samosa, naan filled with lamb or chicken, and uttapam.
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They were called chat, Indian street snacks, and "savouries," which are familiar things like pakora, samosa, naan filled with lamb or chicken, and uttapam.
Archive 2006-05-01 2006
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The officious shopmen began explaining with oily politeness that the first box contained only half a dozen bottles of champagne, and only “the most indispensable articles,” such as savouries, sweets, toffee, etc.
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I make lists of pies, big roasts done slowly in the dying heat of the baker's oven, soups and savouries.
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On the Friday before Diwali I went to the store at work and bought sweets and savouries all from Haldiram determined not to spend my time on the weekend making treats as I always do in Diwali season.
Archive 2008-11-01 Anjali 2008
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On the Friday before Diwali I went to the store at work and bought sweets and savouries all from Haldiram determined not to spend my time on the weekend making treats as I always do in Diwali season.
Steamed Rava Ladu?!! Anjali 2008
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After the savouries came the sweetmeats; marchpane and gingerbread and little coffers of pastry filled with sugared currants and topped with yellow cream.
Dearly Beloved 2010
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There are the "normal" truffles (for example, the gold-medal-winning Sea Salted Caramels have a hard, glossy dark shell that shatters in your mouth, revealing a slow, decadent slurp of salty caramel, or the Kalamansi truffles, with a centre of tangy tropical citrus), and the exotics -- truffles stuffed with Marmite, stilton, and other savouries that turn out to be extremely witty and improbable taste-combinations that are inevitably delicious in a way you never expected.
Boing Boing 2008
GHibbs commented on the word savouries
The noun 'savouries' is the plural of the noun 'savoury' which is the preferred version in the UK of 'savory, savories' in North America.
June 18, 2012