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Acquired taste   /əkwˈaɪərd teɪst/   Listen
Acquired taste

noun
1.
A preference that is only acquired after considerable experience.





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"Acquired taste" Quotes from Famous Books



... what I saw, and to divulge that though I could not touch the beverage, I tasted the root, which has an acrid pungent taste, something like horse-radish, with an aromatic flavour in addition, and I can imagine that the acquired taste for it must, like other acquired tastes, be perfectly irresistible, even without the additional gratification of the results which follow ...
— The Hawaiian Archipelago • Isabella L. Bird
... other, perfectly composed under this exordium; 'I beg you'll take a chair. Chocolate, perhaps, you don't relish? Well! it IS an acquired taste, ...
— Barnaby Rudge • Charles Dickens


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