savour of

savour of (third-person singular simple present savours of, present participle savouring of, simple past and past participle savoured of)

1. (British spelling, transitive) To have a suggestion or trace of a quality or attribute.
   • 1955 June, 'Mercury', “Over 200 Miles Per Hour”, in Railway Magazine, page 380:

     In conclusion, it may savour of anticlimax to mention that from May 22 the famous "Sud Express," over the same route, has been covering the 359.7 miles from Paris Austerlitz to Bordeaux in 4 hr. 59 min. daily, at a start-to-stop average of 72.2 m.p.h., and that the northbound train has been taking 5 hr. 7 min. for an average of 70.3.

• savor of (American spelling)

• “savour of”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.