Delicacies
[delɪkəsɪz]
Definition
(pl. ) of Delicacy
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Examples
- The rivers flowed with wine and milk: The oaks yielded honey; and nature spontaneously produced her greatest delicacies. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- I cannot enjoy delicacies; good things are wasted upon me. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- He had newts, snails, and frogs--the two latter delicacies are still highly esteemed in Normandy and Brittany. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Neither would you approve of the delicacies, as they are thought, of Athenian confectionary? Plato. The Republic.
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