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Definition of Tartest
1. tart [adj] - See also: tart
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tartest
Literary usage of Tartest
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Guide to English Composition by Ebenezer Coloham Brewer (1878)
"THEME CXLIV—The sweetest wine makes the tartest vinegar. A soured friend is your
bitterest foe. Forte & 1' aceto di vin dulce. Corruptio optimi, est pessima ..."
2. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1902)
"... is the very raciest and tartest piece of the kind in our language. Gray's
translations from the Norse and Welsh are universally popular. ..."
3. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1888)
"Even Netley, the magnificent Netley, the very tartest of Tartars in the shape of
a head-gardener—even he culled his choicest blossoms for the fair bosom of ..."
4. A Select Collection of Old English Plays by William Carew Hazlitt, Robert Dodsley (1874)
"... his death had been all one; Had he but mov'd thy tartest Muse to spleen Unto
the fork he had as surely gone : For why ? there lived not that man, ..."
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