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   Tast·er

   /ˈtāstər/

   

   noun

   • 1. a person employed to test food or drink for quality by tasting it: "experienced tasters can tell which plantation coffee beans are from"
   • ▪ a small cup used by a person tasting wine.
   • ▪ an instrument for extracting a small sample from within a cheese.
   • 2. a small quantity or brief experience of something, intended as a sample; a taste: British "the song is a taster for the band's new LP"

   Word Origin late Middle English: in early use from Anglo-Norman French tastour, from Old French taster ‘to taste’; later from taste + -er1.

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