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attic salt

noun

  1. dry, delicate wit.


Attic salt

noun

  1. refined incisive wit


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Word History and Origins

Origin of attic salt1

First recorded in 1750–60

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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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