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What does flinty mean?

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Adjective
  1. Resembling or containing flint.
  2. (geology) Silieceous (including basanite).
  3. Showing a lack of emotion.
  4. Having a taste characteristic of certain white wines, especially Chablis, supposed to evoke the sensation of flint striking steel.
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I settled for one hand on the lower rung and a flinty gaze into the middle distance, careful not to meet his eye.
Shape and texture terms tend to be applied to wines with a high degree of acidity, as angular, austere, flinty, steely.
Coupled with the characteristic flinty aftertaste of the Chablis this is a great white to slurp.
I'll provide some facts and my own point of view on our recent history to challenge his flinty attitude.
Instead, we butted through the heaving, flinty grey water towards the narrow passageway that separates Karmoy from the mainland.
Perhaps this helps to explain why digging for randomness in the flinty soil of physics is such hard work.

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