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English
Etymology
ale + taster
Noun
ale-taster (plural ale-tasters)
- (obsolete) An officer appointed to test the ale and bread in a parish or town.
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References
- 1949, John Dover Wilson (compiler), Life in Shakespeare's England. A Book of Elizabethan Prose, Cambridge at the University Press. 1st ed. 1911, 2nd ed. 1913, 8th reprint. In Glossary and Notes