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"Finish" is a synonym. [4] Alcoholic: a wine that has an unbalanced presence of too much alcohol. [4] Aroma: the smell of a wine. The term is generally applied to younger wines, while bouquet is reserved for more aged wines. [5] Astringent: an overly tannic white wine. [6]
Haute cuisine (French: [ot kɥizin]; lit. ' high cooking ') or grande cuisine is a style of cooking characterised by meticulous preparation, elaborate presentation, and the use of high quality ingredients.
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A synonym is a word, morpheme, or phrase that means precisely or nearly the same as another word, morpheme, or phrase in a given language. [2] For example, in the English language , the words begin , start , commence , and initiate are all synonyms of one another: they are synonymous .
Exquisite Corpse is a literary magazine founded in 1983 (later in online version from 1999) published by Andrei Codrescu. Naked Came the Manatee (Putnam, 1996) is a mystery thriller parody novel. Each of its thirteen chapters was written, in sequence, by a different Florida writer, beginning with Dave Barry and ending with Carl Hiaasen .
Exquisite corpse or Cadavre exquis is a method by which a collection of words or images are collectively assembled. It is based on an old parlour game known by the same name (and also as Consequences ) in which players wrote in turn on a sheet of paper, folded it to conceal part of the writing, and then passed it to the next player for a ...
As early as the tenth century, parī feature as a template for the exquisite beauty of "the beloved" in Persianate folklore and poetry, echoing an identification with the Arabic Houri. [5] [15] However, the term has also been used as a synonym for jinn. [16] [17] [18]
Both the Dictionnaire de l'Académie française and the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) date the term back to the 12th century. The former gives the original meaning as a "culinary preparation consisting of minced meat or fish surrounded by dough and baked in the oven"; [1] the OED's definition is "a pie or pastry usually filled with finely minced meat, fish, vegetables, etc." [2] The French ...