sapour

sapour (plural sapours)

1. Alternative spelling of sapor.
   • 1657, Joannes Renodæus , translated by Richard Tomlinson, “Of Water”, in A Medicinal Dispensatory, Containing the Whole Body of Physick: , London: Jo Streater and Ja Cottrel, page 218:

     Yet ſome fountains are impaired; for paſſing through the bowels of the earth, they require aliene faculties, for they mutuate their odour or ſapour from the places through which they permeate.

   • 1682, T[itus] Lucretius Carus, translated by Thomas Creech, “The Fourth Book”, in T. Lucretius Carus the Epicurean Philosopher, His Six Books De Natura Rerum , Oxford, Oxon: L Lichfield, Printer to the University or Anthony Stephens , page 117:

     Thus Heat and Cold, and other Qualities / Affect the Touch, whil’ſt Colours ſtrike the Eyes, / Odours the Smell, Sapours the Taſt, but none / Invades anothers right, uſurps his Throne, / All live at peace, contented with their own.

   • 1860 March 14, Ed[win] Lankester, “South Kensington Museum, . On the Flavour of Food, . Condiments and Spices.”, in William Crookes, editor, The Chemical News: , volume I, number 16, London: C Mitchell and Co., , published 1860 March 24, page 185, column 1:

     I now pass on to consider, in the second place, the nature of the various kinds of sapours and odours which we find in our food.

• sapoure

Borrowed from Latin sapor, sapōrem. Doublet of savour.

• IPA^(key): /saːˈpuːr/, /ˈsaːpur/

sapour (plural sapours)

1. (literary) taste, flavour

• English: sapor, sapour

• “sapǒur(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.