haut gout noun2 •(old-fashioned) A strong, desirable flavor to be relished; piquancy. •(no longer used) A slight taint of decay, particularly in wild game meat, that used to be considered desirable; approximately, gaminess.In a word, Joseph had the same taste for a full-blooded cuffee, that an epicure has for the haut gout of a stale partridge, and was in ecstasies at my extrication. — 1854
