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palate
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palate as in:  palate of the mouth

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  • The palate is hard at the front of the mouth, but soft towards the rear.
  • "One time I asked her to have a chew and she said no thanks, that— chewing gum cleaved to her palate and rendered her speechless," said Jem carefully.  (source)
    palate = the upper surface of the mouth
  • Now the bitterness of quinine and sweetness of kissing are two tastes perfectly linked on my soft palate.  (source)
    palate = upper surface of the mouth
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  • He remembered the little man rising bitterly and hopelessly from his chair that blinding afternoon to follow the child out of town; he remembered a green watering-can, the photo of the children, that cast he was making out of sand for a split palate.  (source)
    palate = upper surface of the mouth
  • Of course, if a sire produced cleft palates more than once, they stopped breeding him, and a red slash was drawn across the dog's folder.†  (source)
  • But in a period of abundance any half-wit with a spoon can please a palate.†  (source)
  • The tantalizing odor reached our meat-starved palates.†  (source)
  • He had spent the past few weeks wearing his new American wardrobe of T-shirts and sweat suits, clothes that had stretched with his palate.†  (source)
  • The weed dazed us until we got hungry enough to drift down the street to a pizza parlor, where we'd order two-for-one large specials and burn sheets of skin off our upper palates on the first bite.†  (source)
  • It may he your palate will be some help to Cotter Pyke when merchant galleys come trading.†  (source)
  • A local woman, a cook named Tsugi Kaiama, came to the rescue of the boys' palates with an inviting delicacy: juicy hamburgers.†  (source)
  • They were savoury and delicate to the palate, neither too sweet nor too salty.†  (source)
  • A year later, he had an article published in the New England Journal of Medicine concerning cleft palates.†  (source)
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palate as in:  clear my palate

She has an adventurous palate and loves to try foreign foods.
palate = sense of taste
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  • It is a palate pleaser.
  • The words of the hymn were like the drops of frozen rain melting on the dry palate of the panting earth.  (source)
  • It has a rancid taste that appeals to the Iranian palate and it serves as a cheap substitute for cooking oil.  (source)
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  • The brandy returned on his palate like the smell of ether that reminds a man of a recent operation before he's used to life: it tied him to another state of being.  (source)
    palate = sense of taste
  • It needs a lot of learning to see things with a saint's eye: a saint gets a subtle taste for beauty and can look down on poor ignorant palates like theirs.  (source)
    palates = senses of taste
  • He said it was a feast for the eye as well as the palate.  (source)
    palate = sense of taste
  • And though Dr. Grant is most kind and obliging to me, and though he is really a gentleman, and, I dare say, a good scholar and clever, and often preaches good sermons, and is very respectable, I see him to be an indolent, selfish bon vivant, who must have his palate consulted in everything; who will not stir a finger for the convenience of any one; and who, moreover, if the cook makes a blunder, is out of humour with his excellent wife.  (source)
    palate = taste for food
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