Definition of Palate

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Palate

The roof of the mouth.

Relish; taste; liking; -- a sense originating in the mistaken notion that the palate is the organ of taste.

Fig.: Mental relish; intellectual taste.

A projection in the throat of such flowers as the snapdragon.

To perceive by the taste.

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Palate Quotations

We began building this incredible new foundation in this restaurant, and that's what began giving me the left-hand side of tradition and the right-hand side, my new palate.
Emeril Lagasse

Patients would come in and say, Well, my baby is going to have a cleft palate. I'm going like, that's not a reason. And the doctor would do the abortion.
Norma McCorvey

My voice, I have to say, is kind of miraculous because I was born with a cleft palate.
Gale Gordon

I am prepared to believe that a dry martini slightly impairs the palate, but think what it does for the soul.
Alec Waugh

Palate Translations

palate in German is Gaumen
palate in Swedish is gom

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