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TART
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A pastry cup with a filling of fruit or custard and no top crust
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
Hypernyms ("tart" is a kind of...):
pastry (any of various baked foods made of dough or batter)
Domain region:
Britain; Great Britain; U.K.; UK; United Kingdom; United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; 'Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "tart"):
apple tart (a tart filled with sliced apples and sugar)
Derivation:
tartlet (a small tart usually used as a canape)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A small open pie with a fruit filling
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
Hypernyms ("tart" is a kind of...):
pie (dish baked in pastry-lined pan often with a pastry top)
Domain region:
America; the States; U.S.; U.S.A.; United States; United States of America; US; USA (North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean; achieved independence in 1776)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "tart"):
quiche (a tart filled with rich unsweetened custard; often contains other ingredients (as cheese or ham or seafood or vegetables))
apple tart (a small open pie filled with sliced apples and sugar)
lobster tart (a pastry shell filled with cooked lobster)
tartlet (a small tart usually used as a canape)
Derivation:
tartlet (a small tart usually used as a canape)
Sense 3
Meaning:
A woman who engages in sexual intercourse for money
Synonyms:
bawd; cocotte; cyprian; fancy woman; harlot; lady of pleasure; prostitute; sporting lady; tart; whore; woman of the street; working girl
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("tart" is a kind of...):
adult female; woman (an adult female person (as opposed to a man))
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "tart"):
call girl (a female prostitute who can be hired by telephone)
camp follower (a prostitute who provides service to military personnel)
comfort woman; ianfu (a woman forced into prostitution for Japanese servicemen during World War II)
demimondaine (a female prostitute)
floozie; floozy; hooker; hustler; slattern; street girl; streetwalker (a prostitute who attracts customers by walking the streets)
white slave (a woman sold into prostitution)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Harsh
Example:
a tart remark
Synonyms:
sharp; sharp-worded; tart
Classified under:
Similar:
unpleasant (offensive or disagreeable; causing discomfort or unhappiness)
Derivation:
tartness (a rough and bitter manner)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Tasting sour like a lemon
Synonyms:
lemonlike; lemony; sourish; tangy; tart
Classified under:
Similar:
sour (having a sharp biting taste)
Derivation:
tartness (a sharp sour taste)
tartness (the taste experience when vinegar or lemon juice is taken into the mouth)
Context examples:
Didn't they steal sips of tea, stuff gingerbread ad libitum, get a hot biscuit apiece, and as a crowning trespass, didn't they each whisk a captivating little tart into their tiny pockets, there to stick and crumble treacherously, teaching them that both human nature and a pastry are frail?
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
In vain were the well-meant condescensions of Sir Thomas, and all the officious prognostications of Mrs. Norris that she would be a good girl; in vain did Lady Bertram smile and make her sit on the sofa with herself and pug, and vain was even the sight of a gooseberry tart towards giving her comfort; she could scarcely swallow two mouthfuls before tears interrupted her, and sleep seeming to be her likeliest friend, she was taken to finish her sorrows in bed.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
Ours are all apple-tarts.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
I closed the book, which I dared no longer peruse, and put it on the table, beside the untasted tart.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Threading this chaos, I at last reached the larder; there I took possession of a cold chicken, a roll of bread, some tarts, a plate or two and a knife and fork: with this booty I made a hasty retreat.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Bessie had been down into the kitchen, and she brought up with her a tart on a certain brightly painted china plate, whose bird of paradise, nestling in a wreath of convolvuli and rosebuds, had been wont to stir in me a most enthusiastic sense of admiration; and which plate I had often petitioned to be allowed to take in my hand in order to examine it more closely, but had always hitherto been deemed unworthy of such a privilege.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
