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Spice

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A small admixture, a flavouring; as, “He is all very well, but there’s a spice of conceit about him.” Probably the French espèce.

“God’s bountë is all pure, without ony espece of evyll.”—Caxton: Mirrour of the World, i.

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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