Reading the Merriam Webster Dictionary Backwards
September 3, 2014 Wednesday "zest"
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zest: [French, zeste, orange or lemon peel fused as flavoring]
piquancy; a quality of enhancing enjoyment (lively, interesting; or a spicy agreeable taste)
The definition is as interesting at the actual word. The characteristics seem to also apply to a very attractive, agreeable date (or friendship) as well…
A French phrase: donner du piquant (to add or give zest…)
A cooking term, also French: to add the scrapings of the peel of a lemon or orange.
Maybe to add zest to my life I should "eat a peach" (eat the zest or peel of the peach?) i.e. The Love Song of Alfred E. Prufrock by T. S. Elliot. Now there is a stretched analogy.
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