Meanings (ES + gloss)
agridulce • dulce y amargo
Both bitter and sweet.
The dark green mooncake is loaded with matcha-infused salted egg yolk custard, which gives a bittersweet taste.
bittersweet chocolate
agridulce
Expressing contrasting emotions of pain and pleasure.
The break-up was very bittersweet; they both hurt to end it, but were glad it was over.
[…] sensations of this kind, however delicious, are, at their first recognition, of a very tumultuous nature, and have very little of the opiate in them. They were, moreover, in th…
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