saltish

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They sipped on their saltish Kashmiri pink tea a little longer instead of starting on the buffet their host had set out.

From Washington Post • Jan. 23, 2017

Middle Miocene.—Sandstone containing quartz, intercalated with marl of a saltish taste.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 647, May 26, 1888 by Various

“I’ll have fifty to-day, Mr. Kuk,” she said to the saltish individual when he hailed her from outside the tent.

From The Corner House Girls Under Canvas How they reached Pleasant Cove and what happened afterward by Hill, Grace Brooks

A saltish concretion on reeds and grass in marshy grounds in Galatia.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Webster, Noah

Brackish, brak′ish, adj. saltish: applied to water mixed with salt or with sea-water.—n.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various