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déguster

to savour, to taste

verb deh-gus-TEH Rare
Food & Drink Cooking

Usage Note

Déguster implies slow, appreciative tasting rather than mere eating or drinking. Une dégustation de vins is a wine tasting. Colloquially it can also mean 'to take a beating' or 'to suffer': Il va déguster! ('He's going to get it!'). The noun is dégustation.

Examples

"Nous avons dégusté un vin local excellent."

Natural Translation

We savoured an excellent local wine.

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