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Synonyms for spice

Grammar : Noun
Spell : spahys
Phonetic Transcription : spaɪs

Top 10 synonyms for spice
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Définition of spice

Origin :
  • early 13c., from Old French espice, from Late Latin species (plural) "spices, goods, wares," from Latin "kind, sort" (see species). Early druggists recognized four "types" of spices: saffron, clove, cinnamon, nutmeg. Figurative sense of "slight touch or trace of something" is recorded from 1530s. Spice-cake first attested 1520s.
  • noun flavor, zest
Example sentences :
  • Take the liquor from the fire, and strain out the spice from it.
  • Extract from : « Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches » by Eliza Leslie
  • If you do not like onions, substitute for them a larger quantity of spice.
  • Extract from : « Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches » by Eliza Leslie
  • Vinegar and spice for pickles should be boiled but a few minutes.
  • Extract from : « Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches » by Eliza Leslie
  • Put them into stone jars, and prepare the spice and vinegar.
  • Extract from : « Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches » by Eliza Leslie
  • Spice may be ground in a mill kept, exclusively for that purpose.
  • Extract from : « Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches » by Eliza Leslie
  • The store smelled of spice, and the clerk that minute spilled some cinnamon.
  • Extract from : « Tiverton Tales » by Alice Brown
  • But without variety, life has no spice, and monotony wearies the soul.
  • Extract from : « Welsh Fairy Tales » by William Elliott Griffis
  • Boil some spice in a little water till the flavour is gained, then add an equal quantity of port, with sugar and nutmeg.
  • Extract from : « The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, » by Mary Eaton
  • Scale and wash the fish, lard them with pieces of silver eel, rolled up in spice and sweet herbs, with bay leaves finely powdered.
  • Extract from : « The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, » by Mary Eaton
  • To-night I may spice it up a little with modern middle-Europe scandal.
  • Extract from : « The Prisoner » by Alice Brown

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