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noun

Zest n.

A piece of orange or lemon peel, or the aromatic oil which may be squeezed from such peel, used to give flavor to liquor, etc.

Hence, something that gives or enhances a pleasant taste, or the taste itself; an appetizer; also, keen enjoyment; relish; gusto. "Almighty Vanity! to thee they owe Their zest of pleasure, and their balm of woe." "Liberality of disposition and conduct gives the highest zest and relish to social intercourse."

The woody, thick skin inclosing the kernel of a walnut. (Obs.)

verb

Zest v. t. (past & past part. zested; pres. part. zesting)

To cut into thin slips, as the peel of an orange, lemon, etc.; to squeeze, as peel, over the surface of anything.

To give a relish or flavor to; to heighten the taste or relish of; as, to zest wine.

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Etymology of 'Zest'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... vanished or been hidden from his view. I think that his feelings underwent a rally, rather, perhaps, than his understanding, when I was first put forward as a candidate for the University of Oxford in 1847. At least, I recollect his speaking with a real zest and interest at that time of my wife, as a skilful ...

— Memoirs of James Robert Hope-Scott, Volume 2 • Robert Ornsby

... reminiscences it externally resembled. Glancing over the pages of My Confidences, the careless library subscriber encountered the usual number of names of well-known personages, whose appearance is supposed by publishers to add sufficient zest to reminiscences to secure for them a sale large enough, at any rate, to recoup the cost of publication. Yet, despite these names, Mr. Locker's book is completely unlike the modern memoir. Beneath a carefully-constructed, and perhaps slightly artificially maintained, frivolity ...

— In the Name of the Bodleian and Other Essays • Augustine Birrell

... it repeated itself in a different way. 'Thanase was in gay humor that morning. He kissed his wife, tossed his children, played on his fiddle that tune they all liked best, and, while Zosephine looked after him with young zest in her eye, sprang into the saddle and galloped across the prairie a la chapelle to pass a jolly forenoon at chin-chin in ...

— Bonaventure - A Prose Pastoral of Acadian Louisiana • George Washington Cable

... were busy in Revonde. Rumour and mystery and an absence of any definite information added zest to the town talk. The ...

— A Modern Mercenary • Kate Prichard and Hesketh Vernon Hesketh-Prichard

... complaint of the English seaside town that there will be no fish "till the train comes in from London," is thus a sufficiently old one. Yet the same Martial supplies another picture, painted with such zest of frank enjoyment that we are at once convinced of its truth. Some portions of it perhaps admit of translation in the ...

— Life in the Roman World of Nero and St. Paul • T. G. Tucker

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