Flinty odour. A characteristic odour taste of some dry wines made from grapes grown on certain siliceous soils. 燧石般的气味:某些干葡萄酒的典型气味,它们以在高硅酸盐土壤中生长的葡萄酿制。
flinty flintier, flintiest
[ adj ]
containing flint
<adj.pert>
showing unfeeling resistance to tender feelings
<adj.all> his flinty gaze the child's misery would move even the most obdurate heart
Flinty \Flint"y\, a. [Compar. {Flintier}; superl. {Flintiest}.] Consisting of, composed of, abounding in, or resembling, flint; as, a flinty rock; flinty ground; a flinty heart.
{Flinty rock}, or {Flinty state}, a siliceous slate; -- basanite is here included. See {Basanite}.
The scene is helped immeasureably by Nancy Marchand's portrayal of the flinty but very proper matriarch.
Once the wellspring of Yankee thrift and flinty conservatism, New Hampshire in the 1980s was transformed by explosive economic and population growth.