Definitions
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- adjective Alternative spelling of
savory .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective morally wholesome or acceptable
- noun an aromatic or spicy dish served at the end of dinner or as an hors d'oeuvre
- noun either of two aromatic herbs of the mint family
- adjective pleasing to the sense of taste
- adjective having an agreeably pungent taste
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Examples
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This American thing of mixing sweet foods with savoury is entirely bizarre.
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I haven't really ever used apples in savoury dishes - will have to try it
Early October At Its Best: Pork Tenderloin with Apples & Sour Cream Laura 2008
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It kinda looks like red raisins, but instead of being sweet, it's used in savoury dishes.
Conversations W/Dad fantasyecho 2008
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I like using fruits and berries in savoury dishes.
Recipe: Chicken with Pomegranate-Wine Sauce Laurie Constantino 2007
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She was still leaning on her elbow, looking around her with a rather discontented face, when some door being opened down stairs, a great noise of hissing and sputtering came to her ears, and presently after there stole to her nostrils a steaming odour of something very savoury from the kitchen.
The Wide, Wide World 1892
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This so-called "fifth taste", which is often described as savoury, is what gives so much of Asian food its distinctive flavour.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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Being a Scot, biscuits (what I would call a savoury scone) are a bit of a novelty for me, so I am looking forward to making some.
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I began exploring the idea of savoury frangipane as a base on which to lay a vegetable such as fennel.
Foodly discussions Jes 2008
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I began exploring the idea of savoury frangipane as a base on which to lay a vegetable such as fennel.
Archive 2008-12-01 Jes 2008
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"Handvo" is a cherished gujarati recipe which can be called a savoury steamed vegetable cornmeal cake, and is filled with several nutritious ingredients.
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