pretaste
English edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
pretaste (plural pretastes)
- A taste taken beforehand.
- 2013, Maynard A. Amerine, Rose Marie Pangborn, Edward B. Roessler, Principles of Sensory Evaluation of Food, page 308:
- […] sodium chloride was discriminated significantly better after a pretaste of distilled water, hot bouillon, hot coffee (1% level), or tomato juice (5% level), than after milk, apple juice, or raw apple.
Verb edit
pretaste (third-person singular simple present pretastes, present participle pretasting, simple past and past participle pretasted)
- To take a previous or initial taste.