Read full poem →Whose eyes were as the morning purged with flame,
Whose eyelids as sweet savour issuing thence.
Dictionary Entry
The specific taste or smell of something.
Origin
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Common Phrases
. savourunto savoursavour sweetsavour smelling
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Poetry examples for “savour”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →glitter,
And she laughs with a savour of blood in her face, and a savour of
guile.
Read full poem →Yea, for their sake and in death's favour
Things of sweet shape and of sweet savour
We yield them, spice and flower and wine;
Read full poem →“ stamp of a great foot behind him, at every word
“ the savour of a strong spirit; and he, this man, so
** graced, so gilded, or, as I may say, so tin-foyl'd
Read full poem →Gold, frankincense and myrrh; if such may be
For savour or for state
Within the threshold of Thy golden gate.
Read full poem →They that will break it find
Heart-succouring savour of each several meat,
And kernell'd drink of brain-renewing power,
Read full poem →Thou art immortal, thou canst ever toy,
Nor savour less
The sweets of thine eternal childishness,
Read full poem →Then lips to lips he joined; now freed from fear,
He found the savour of the kiss sincere.
At this the wakened image oped her eyes,
Read full poem →And little fit to please a classic ear;
Because my wine was of too poor a savour
For one whose palate gladdens in the flavour
Read full poem →Our Will[7] shall be wild-fowl of excellent flavour,
And Dick[8] with his pepper shall heighten the savour;
Our Cumberland's[9] sweet-bread its place shall obtain,