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haut gout en · NOUN

Etymology

From French hautgoût, from haut (“high”), goût (“taste”).

Meanings

  1. (archaic, uncountable) A slight taint of decay, particularly in wild game meat, that used to be considered desirable; approximately, gaminess.
    • The merchants began to snuff the cadaverous haut goût of lucrative war; the freighting business never was so lively, on account of the prodigious taking up for transport service: great orders for provisions of all kinds, new clothing for the troops, puts life into the woollen manufactures. 1907, Lewis Melville, Farmer George, volume 2, page 143:
    • In a word, Joseph had the same taste for a full-blooded cuffee, that an epicure has for the haut gout of a stale partridge, and was in ecstasies at my extrication. 1854, Brantz Mayer, Theodore Canot, Captain Canot:
  2. (dated, uncountable) A strong, desirable flavor to be relished; piquancy.

Relateds

hogo

Translations (2)

de Hautgout (slight taint of decay in wild game meat) · fr haut-goût (slight taint of decay in wild game meat)