Meanings (ES + gloss)
chirle • desaborido • insulso • insípido • soso
Lacking taste or flavor; without seasoning, spice, or discernible qualities of taste.
Salt oysters, on being transferred to fresh water, are "fattened" in the course of two or three days ; if allowed to remain longer they become lean again, and are flavorless.
[…] and as for fruit, the high garden wall was lined with pear trees, spread out flat against it, where they managed to produce a cold, flavorless fruit, a good deal akin to cucumb…
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