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US
/æmˈbɹoʊʒəɫ/
]
[ UK /æmbɹˈəʊsɪəl/ ]
[ UK /æmbɹˈəʊsɪəl/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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extremely pleasing to the taste; sweet and fragrant
ambrosial food
a nectarous drink - worthy of the gods
How To Use ambrosial In A Sentence
- Recollect always that ambrosia, as food of gods, is the continual restorer of strength; that all food is ambrosial when it nourishes, and that the night is called "ambrosial" because it restores strength to the soul through its peace, as, in the The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing
- * Elder Joy – This fabled treat coveted by the dark deities is a sinister cousin to a popular human confection -- an ambrosial amalgam of Coconut, white-chocolate Ganache, and Rum, enrobed in the darkest Chocolate and topped with a crisp, whole Almond. Places You Haunt
- Richard Polwhele's "Unsexed Females," where he asks us to picture an "unsex'd" woman's body: "Scarce by a gossamery film carest,/Sport [s], in full view, the meretricious breast;" he then guides us to undress the woman farther, to "Loose the chaste cincture, where the graces shone,/And languish'd all the Loves, the ambrosial zone. 'Pleasure is now, and ought to be, your business': Stealing Sexuality in Jane Austen's _Juvenilia_
- And I use Big Words, like "ambrosial," which bothers some children's book reviewers. INTERVIEW: Vandana Singh
- There's definitely a great round-up of delicious, ambrosial and nectareous recipes for all of us to try!
- Thespian chorus, was in the Dorian states already devoted to sublime themes, and enriched by elaborate art; and Simonides, whose elegies, peculiar for their sweetness, might have inspired the "ambrosial Athens: Its Rise and Fall, Complete
- ambrosial food
- From cat to zombie to Mitchum to Aldo in the snow, you find yourself falling in some kind of ambrosial, demented love. Kim Morgan: For the Love of (Film Noir): Nightfall
- * Elder Joy – This fabled treat coveted by the dark deities is a sinister cousin to a popular human confection -- an ambrosial amalgam of Coconut, white-chocolate Ganache, and Rum, enrobed in the darkest Chocolate and topped with a crisp, whole Almond. Places You Haunt
- A pity, because the beautifully poached damsons, greengages and plums which accompanied them were ambrosial enough to serve on their own.