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noun

Tart n. A species of small open pie, or piece of pastry, containing jelly or conserve; a sort of fruit pie.

adjective

Tart adj.

Sharp to the taste; acid; sour; as, a tart apple.

Fig.: Sharp; keen; severe; as, a tart reply; tart language; a tart rebuke. "Why art thou tart, my brother?"

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Etymology of 'Tart'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Tart" Quotes from Famous Books

... still sobbed as he laid his hand in the doctor's, and then the meal was resumed; but Dexter's appetite was gone. He could not finish the lamb, and it was only with difficulty that he managed a little rhubarb tart ...

— Quicksilver - The Boy With No Skid To His Wheel • George Manville Fenn

... tart and hot. Very hot. She set the glass back on the table, inhaled with difficulty, exhaled quiveringly. Tears gathered in ...

— Legacy • James H Schmitz

... demands, a looseness that would be insipid in Chinese. And Chinese, with its unmodified words and rigid sequences, has a compactness of phrase, a terse parallelism, and a silent suggestiveness that would be too tart, too mathematical, for the English genius. While we cannot assimilate the luxurious periods of Latin nor the pointilliste style of the Chinese classics, we can enter sympathetically into the ...

— Language - An Introduction to the Study of Speech • Edward Sapir

... brackish wells; but especiall that of Rich. Bolwell, two quarts whereof did yield by evaporation two good spoonfulls heapt of a very tart salt. Dr. Meret ...

— The Natural History of Wiltshire • John Aubrey

... to explore, dishes whose very names would make a wooden Indian's mouth water. But when he got there the cupboard was bare. England was going on rations. Fats were scarce, sugars were rare, starches were controlled by the food board. And who could make a currant tart without these? He dropped two bullet-sized brown biscuits with a hazelnut of butter under his vest the first three minutes of our first breakfast and asked for another round, after he had ...

— The Martial Adventures of Henry and Me • William Allen White

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