Definition of Savorous

1. a. Having a savor; savory.

Definition of Savorous

1. Adjective. flavorful ¹

2. Adjective. savory, tasty ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Savorous

1. savory [adj] - See also: savory

Lexicographical Neighbors of Savorous

savoir-faire
savor
savored
savorer
savorers
savorier
savories
savoriest
savorily
savoriness
savorinesses
savoring
savorless
savorlessness
savorly
savorous (current term)
savorously
savors
savour
savoured
savourer
savourers
savourier
savouries
savouriest
savourily
savouriness
savouring

Literary usage of Savorous

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Camden Miscellany by Camden Society (Great Britain), Royal Historical Society (Great Britain) (1902)
"Besides these, vines of great estimation and such abundance of savorous flowres that it is no less pleasure to behold them then to smell to them. ..."

2. The Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer: with an introduction by Thomas R by Geoffrey Chaucer, Thomas Raynesford Lounsbury (1900)
"... many a sythe, 80 Than yonge folk entenden ay For to ben gay and amorous, The tyme is than so savorous. Hard is his herte that loveth nought 85 In May, ..."

3. The English Poets: Selections with Critical Introductions by Various Writers by Thomas Humphry Ward (1912)
"Than younge folk entenden ay, For to ben gay and amorous, The tyme is than so savorous. Hard is the hert that loveth nought In May, whan al this mirth is ..."

4. The Bookman (1915)
"... sang fables tenderly euphonic, old-fashioned, and naïve, of a savant and savorous simplicity. There was le Réveil, with Grégoire Le Roy, ..."

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