dégustation

See also: degustation

English

Noun

dégustation (countable and uncountable, plural dégustations)

1. Alternative spelling of degustation
   • 1969, Country Fair, page 86, column 1:

     NOT EVEN PUSCHLAVER SCHMUGGLERTRUNK CAN SPOIL OUR DÉGUSTATIONS

   • 1990, Tom Brosnahan, Marilyn Wood, John Godwin, “Central Canada: Ottawa”, in Canada (Frommer’s), 6th edition, →ISBN, page 286:

     The Carleton Room, exquisitely elegant with its embroidered wallpaper and French provincial decor, offers fine continental cuisine, a special dégustation, as well as the hotel’s alternative cuisine—appetizer, salad, and main course totaling less than 650 calories.

   • 2006, Costa Rica: A Travel Survival Kit, Lonely Planet Publications, →ISBN, page 421, column 2:

     Tours give a comprehensive overview of the life cycle of cacao plants and the production of chocolate (with dégustation!).

   • 2011, Kit Wohl, “Introduction”, in The James Beard Foundation’s Best of the Best: A 25^th Anniversary Celebration of America’s Outstanding Chefs, San Francisco, Calif.: Chronicle Books, →ISBN, section “A Uniquely American Cuisine”, page 11, column 1:

     The bold, straightforward cheesiness of a good mac’n’cheese, the simple, eat-with-your-hands casualness of burgers and fried chicken are still part of our gastronomic makeup, even when we are sitting down to an elegant multicourse dégustation.

   • 2018, Alison Pearlman, May We Suggest: Restaurant Menus and the Art of Persuasion, Surrey Books, →ISBN:

     The beverage menu explained that its concoctions—“created using juicing, infusing, and brewing methods”—were specially designed for the evening’s dégustations. […] While it’s true that the outsize prices of dégustations are the biggest markups in business, the demands that tasting menus place on diners—in cost, time, and attention—make the customers for restaurants featuring only them, […] Now it’s common to find well-regarded fine-dining menus with less than half of Maccioni’s ideal, or in cases of the set-price dégustations I discuss in chapter 1, with no food choice at all.

   • 2019, Martha Skewermann, “Eviction Night”, in Dire and Puny: Outside Chump’s Blackened House, →ISBN:

     Washintown was in for some dégustations like it had never expected.

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin degustātiōnem, from degusto.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /de.ɡys.ta.sjɔ̃/
• Rhymes: -ɔ̃

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Noun

dégustation f (plural dégustations)

1. tasting, act of tasting or trying out food

Related terms

• déguster

Further reading

• “dégustation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.