[F., repr. OF. soupeçon, souspeçon:—pop.L. suspectiōn-, suspectio for suspicio SUSPICION sb.] A suspicion, a suggestion, a very small quantity or slight trace, of something.
1766. H. Walpole, Lett. (1857), V. 16. Wesley is a lean elderly man, fresh-coloured, his hair smoothly combed, but with a soupçon of curl at the ends.
1838. Miss Maitland, Let. Madras (1843), 235. We are now writing dialogues for the natives … on different subjects, just to give them a soupçon of sense.
1849. [Eastwick], Dry Leaves, 170. Any one who has the smallest soupçon of justice in his composition.
1884. Sir H. Hawkins, in Law Times Rep., L. 814/1. Nobody would suppose there was even a soupçon of a gambling character about the establishment.
