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attic salt
noun
- dry, delicate wit.
Attic salt
noun
- refined incisive wit
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Word History and Origins
Origin of attic salt1
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Example Sentences
Thibauts songs blended the courteous poetry of the troubadour tradition with the attic salt of his own most civilized Champagne.
And all the while I was tugging at my box of Attic Salt, to get it open, to get a pinch.
There is the attic salt which springs from the charm in the words, from the flash of wit, from the spirited and brilliant sally.
Alas, if I had only taken the supposed rapidity of my progress with a grain of attic salt!
Twas Attic salt (sermone bono) that flavoured most the food.
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