When I was young, I got a life changing hair cut.
That literary movement is known as modernism.
Modernism came to be after WWI, as a response to both the war and the previous literary eras. It wanted to change everything we knew about literature, which is why it used many experimental techniques to wow the audience and make them think.
It normally means charm or enjoyment or in the case of food something used to add flavor (usually refers to lemon zest or orange zest which comes from shaving the peel off of the fruit)
The emperor lived a life of ridiculous opulence. His subjects were really there to serve and entertain him. he did whatever he wanted