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noun

Tart n. A species of small open pie, or piece of pastry, containing jelly or conserve; a sort of fruit pie.

adjective

Tart adj.

Sharp to the taste; acid; sour; as, a tart apple.

Fig.: Sharp; keen; severe; as, a tart reply; tart language; a tart rebuke. "Why art thou tart, my brother?"

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Etymology of 'Tart'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Tart" Quotes from Famous Books

... ate with a better appetite. There were excellent ragouts, and the prince made use of the cat's paw to taste them; but he sometimes pulled his paw too roughly, and Bluet, not understanding raillery, began to mew and be quite out of patience. The princess observing it, "Bring that fricassee and that tart to poor Bluet," said she; "see how he cries to ...

— The Little Lame Prince - And: The Invisible Prince; Prince Cherry; The Prince With The Nose - The Frog-Prince; Clever Alice • Miss Mulock--Pseudonym of Maria Dinah Craik

... fences of his hired domain always fell into ruins under him, perhaps because he sat on them so much, and the hovels he occupied rotted down during his placid residence in them. He moved from desolation to desolation, but carried always with him the equal mind of a philosopher. Not even the occasional tart remarks of his wife, about their nomadic life and his serenity in the midst of discomfort, ...

— Baddeck and That Sort of Thing • Charles Dudley Warner

... with one cup sweet milk, one teaspoonful sugar, two eggs, whites and yolks beaten separately, two cups flour, one teaspoonful baking powder mixed with flour. Chop some good tart apples, mix them in the batter and fry in hot lard. Serve them with ...

— Favorite Dishes • Carrie V. Shuman

... preliminary drops, and then the first clap of thunder, clear in its own mind and full of purpose. Then the first downpour of rain, that isn't quite so clear, and wavers for a breathing-space, till the tart reminder of the first swift, decisive lightning-flash recalls it to its duty, and it becomes a steady, intolerable torrent that empties roads and streets of passers-by, and makes the gutters rivulets. And then the storm itself—flash ...

— Somehow Good • William de Morgan

... never in my life seen anything in the least like the prodigy, it was clearly impossible for me to earn the tart succulence of the summer ...

— Red Axe • Samuel Rutherford Crockett

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