OriginFrom Middle English sapour, sapoure, from Latin sapor. Doublet of savour /savor.
- archaic, countable, uncountableA type of taste (sweetness, sourness etc.); loosely, taste, flavor.
“But, though the ſavour bee ſo baſe, the ſapor is ſo excellent, that no meat, no ſauce, no veſſell pleaſes the Guzurats pallat, ſave what reliſhes of it.”
Formssapors(plural) · sapour(alternative)