well-flavored

fla·vor

[fley-ver]
noun
1.
taste, especially the distinctive taste of something as it is experienced in the mouth.
2.
a substance or extract that provides a particular taste; flavoring.
3.
the characteristic quality of a thing: He captured the flavor of the experience in his book.
4.
a particular quality noticeable in a thing: language with a strong nautical flavor.
5.
Physics. any of the six labels given to the distinct kinds of quark: up, down, strange, charm, bottom, and top.
6.
Archaic. smell, odor, or aroma.
verb (used with object)
7.
to give flavor to (something).
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a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
Also, especially British, flavour.


Origin:
1300–50; Middle English < Middle French fla(o)ur < Late Latin *flātor stench, breath, alteration of Latin flātus a blowing, breathing, (see flatus), perhaps with -or of fētor fetor

fla·vor·less, adjective
de·fla·vor, verb (used with object)
o·ver·fla·vor, verb
pre·fla·vor, noun, verb (used with object)
un·fla·vored, adjective
well-fla·vored, adjective


1. See taste. 2. seasoning. 3. essence, spirit.
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flavour or flavor (ˈfleɪvə) [Click for IPA pronunciation guide]
 
n
1.  taste perceived in food or liquid in the mouth
2.  a substance added to food, etc, to impart a specific taste
3.  a distinctive quality or atmosphere; suggestion: a poem with a Shakespearean flavour
4.  a type or variety: various flavours of graphical interface
5.  physics a property of quarks that enables them to be differentiated into six types: up, down, strange, charm, bottom (or beauty), and top (or truth)
6.  flavour of the month a person or thing that is the most popular at a certain time
 
vb
7.  (tr) to impart a flavour, taste, or quality to
 
[C14: from Old French flaour, from Late Latin flātor (unattested) bad smell, breath, from Latin flāre to blow]
 
flavor or flavor
 
n
 
vb
 
[C14: from Old French flaour, from Late Latin flātor (unattested) bad smell, breath, from Latin flāre to blow]
 
'flavourer or flavor
 
n
 
'flavorer or flavor
 
n
 
'flavourless or flavor
 
adj
 
'flavorless or flavor
 
adj
 
'flavoursome or flavor
 
adj
 
'flavorsome or flavor
 
adj

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Word Origin & History

flavor
c.1300, "a smell, odor," from O.Fr. flaour "smell, odor," from V.L. flator "odor," lit. "that which blows," from L. flator "blower," from flare "to blow, puff," which is cognate with O.E. blawan (see blow (v.1)). The same V.L. source produced O.It. fiatore "a bad odor." Sense
of "taste, savor" is 1697, originally "the element in taste which depends on the sense of smell." The -v- is perhaps from infl. of savor.
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flavor   (flā'vər)  Pronunciation Key 
Any of six classifications of quark varieties, distinguished by mass and electric charge. The flavors have the names up, down, strange, charm, top, and bottom. Protons in atomic nuclei are composed of two up quarks and one down quark, while neutrons consist of one up quark and two down quarks. The flavor of a quark may be changed in interactions involving the weak force.
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flavor

n.
1. [common] Variety, type, kind. "DDT commands come in two flavors." "These lights come in two flavors, big red ones and small green ones." "Linux is a flavor of Unix" See vanilla.
2. The attribute that causes something to be flavorful. Usually used in the phrase "yields additional flavor". "This convention yields additional flavor by allowing one to print text either right-side-up or upside-down." See vanilla. This usage was certainly reinforced by the terminology of quantum chromodynamics, in which quarks (the constituents of, e.g., protons) come in six flavors (up, down, strange, charm, top, bottom) and three colors (red, blue, green) -- however, hackish use of `flavor' at MIT predated QCD.
3. The term for `class' (in the object-oriented sense) in the LISP Machine Flavors system. Though the Flavors design has been superseded (notably by the Common LISP CLOS facility), the term `flavor' is still used as a general synonym for `class' by some LISP hackers.
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