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Seasoning

noun

Something added to food primarily for the savor it imparts. Synonyms: flavorer, flavoring, flavourer, flavouring, seasoner.

The act of adding a seasoning to food.

Season

verb

(past & past part. seasoned; pres. part. seasoning)

Lend flavor to. Synonyms: flavor, flavour.

Make fit. Synonym: harden.

Make more temperate, acceptable, or suitable by adding something else; moderate. Synonyms: mollify, temper.

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"Seasoning" Quotes from Famous Books

... place thereof Monsieur Fourier's symmetrical phalanstere, or Mr. Owen's architectural parallelogram. It was with some such tract that Lenny was seasoning his crusts and his radishes, when Riccabocca, bending his long dark face over the student's shoulder, ...

— The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851 • Various

... whole business. Neither have we any butter or lard. We shall have to cook the beans in themselves and eat them without seasoning." ...

— The Pony Rider Boys in the Ozarks • Frank Gee Patchin

... Their guides, also, whom you shall choose with reference to such duty, will take care to conduct the crusaders by difficult and circuitous routes; which will be doing them a real service, by inuring them to the hardships of the country and climate, which they would otherwise have to face without seasoning. ...

— Waverley Volume XII • Sir Walter Scott

... the mode of seasoning timber for shipbuilding in the Arabian Gulf. They bury it in the sand within water-mark, and leave it exposed to the flux and reflux of the tide for six months at least, but often for twelve or eighteen. The tendency to vegetation which ...

— The Journal of Sir Walter Scott - From the Original Manuscript at Abbotsford • Walter Scott

... in observing that she knew no more about cooking than she did about lighting a fire. The only cooking utensils in the place were a pot and a frying pan. The frying pan was in constant use. For dinner she fried a piece of tough beef without seasoning. She didn't know how to make bread. She bought the soggy stuff at the grocer's. There was no bread for dinner at all. They had boiled potatoes, boiled in plain water without even a grain of salt or pepper. The coffee was so black and heavy and ...

— The Man in Gray • Thomas Dixon

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