Tart
[tɑːt] or [tɑrt]
Definition
(noun.) a pastry cup with a filling of fruit or custard and no top crust.
(noun.) a small open pie with a fruit filling.
Editor: Timmy--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) Sharp to the taste; acid; sour; as, a tart apple.
(v. t.) Fig.: Sharp; keen; severe; as, a tart reply; tart language; a tart rebuke.
(n.) A species of small open pie, or piece of pastry, containing jelly or conserve; a sort of fruit pie.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Sour, acid, pricked.[2]. Severe, harsh, caustic, crabbed, sharp, snappish, testy, snarling, petulant, acrimonious, ill-tempered, ill-humored.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Sharp, acid, sour, acidulous, keen, pungent, {[acerbous]?}, severe,acrimonious, biting, bitter, harsh, rude, irascible
ANT:Mellow, sweet, luscious, mild, genial, suave, kindly, unctuous, oily, smooth,bland, blandiloquent, courteous, deferential, polite, ceremonious
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Definition
adj. sharp or sour to the taste: (fig.) sharp: severe.—adj. Tart′ish somewhat tart.—adv. Tart′ly.—n. Tart′ness.
n. a small pie containing fruit or jelly baked in paste.—n. Tart′let a small tart.
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Examples
- There was pastry upon a dish; he selected an apricot puff and a damson tart. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Here he stopped at a pastrycook's, went in (probably to give an order), and came out again immediately with a tart in his hand. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- The Count stopped, bit a piece for himself out of the tart, and gravely handed the rest to the monkey. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- And so William was at liberty to look and long--as the poor boy at school who has no money may sigh after the contents of the tart-woman's tray. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Entirely upon fruit-tart and cream. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Do you put cayenne into your cream-tarts in India, sir? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Joseph simply said, Cream-tarts, Miss? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Couldn't you--didn't you--now, if it had rained sugar-plums, or three-cornered raspberry tarts, or anything of that sort! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Among the viands was expected to be found a small assortment of cheesecakes and tarts. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Ours are all apple-tarts. Jane Austen. Emma.
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