flavor-perceptible

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These are all old men: they are all men of education, and in the social position of gentlemen; but each has certain characteristics which the others have not: each has the distinctive individual flavor-perceptible, but indescribable, like the savor of a fruit which is wanting in Cooper's well-dressed and well-behaved lay-figures.

Various - The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 51, January, 1862