biscuitiness
nounEtymology From biscuity + -ness.
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The quality of being biscuity.
- They said, you know, the parliamentarians, as soon as we started having a Celtic P.M. that it would bring the spice of romance on to the dry biscuit of statecraft—and the politic-men do so love biscuitiness!—but even they can’t have guessed what romance.1917 February 4, Sunday Pictorial, number 100, page 13:
- Nor does the revolution in Italian white wine making stop with the familiar names. It continues in the fragrant bouquet and greengage-tart fruit on the Lugana Villa Flora 1986 (Arthur Rackhams, £3.99; Waitrose, £3.59); in the delicious almond-biscuitiness of the Vernaccia di San Gimignano 1986 of San Quirico (Sainsbury’s Vintage Selection, £3.45); or, from northern Italy where German ideas meet Italian, in the Sylvaner 1985 from Herbert Tiefenbrunner, with its perfumed, light, fragrant fruit (Tesco, £3.25).1987 September 26, Roger Voss, “Suaver Soaves”, in The Daily Telegraph, number 41,137, page IV:
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- It also provides a really toasty nose: ultra biscuitiness.1988, Serena Sutcliffe, Champagne: The History and Character of the World’s Most Celebrated Wine, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 91:
- Clean, with good biscuitiness, […]1988, Decanter, page 99:
- The biscuitiness apparent in every Drappier cuvée could be due to the terroir and the low sulphur regime introduced by Michel Drappier, which accentuates the development process.1993, Wine & Spirit:
- Oddbins has another Lehman creation — Hindmarsh Hill Chenin (£2·99) — that is less immediately appealing but again full of flavour: greengages again and a certain biscuitiness, both a sign of good Chenin grapes, plus a hint of leather and Vegemite, which tastes pretty good.1993 April 10, Oz Clarke, “And all for under a fiver”, in The Daily Telegraph, number 42,859, page XVI: