haut gout

Definition

A slight taint of decay, particularly in wild game meat, that used to be considered desirable; approximately, gaminess.

Etymology

From French haut goût, from haut (“high”), goût (“taste”).

Example Sentences

• "In a word, Joseph had the same taste for a full-blooded cuffee, that an epicure has for the haut gout of a stale partridge, and was in ecstasies at my extrication."
• "The merchants began to snuff the cadaverous haut goût of lucrative war; the freighting business never was so lively, on account of the prodigious taking up for transport service: great orders for provisions of all kinds, new clothing for the troops, puts life into the woollen manufactures."