The quality of being beautiful and delicate in appearance

Usage examples of delicacy.

Zanna, with unusual delicacy, saw instantly what I meant and, instead of making a hurtful joke out of it, stepped away from Barong, gathering up the dishes and bowls from our funereal meal.

But when we recollect with how much ease, in the more ancient civil wars, the zeal of party and the habits of military obedience had converted the native citizens of Rome into her most implacable enemies, we shall be inclined to distrust this extreme delicacy of strangers and barbarians, who had never beheld Italy till they entered it in a hostile manner.

North Carolinian propensity for modesty and sobriety accounted for the relative delicacy of the reporting.

A maidservant poured wine and brought a tray of delicacies, withdrawing with the immaculate discretion of one trained to serve an adept of Cereus House.

However, I am told that Gary Fussfeld was forever inciting peevish squabbles over the menu for supper socials, as he abhorred ham biscuits, hog jowls, chitlins, pork cracklings and other such traditional SoPrim Southern delicacies.

The snow base, six inches, obscured most of the seeds that the flaming bird liked to eat, but light winds kept a few delicacies dropping, including some still-succulent chokeberry seeds.

I could see a wonderful range of delicacies brought up from the kitchens being suitably plated up and garnished and our table was soon spread with an elegant array of creamware dishes.

Egerton had more of the gloss of life, those of Denbigh were certainly distinguished by a more finished delicacy and propriety.

I am Phillip Theophrastus Gribbleflotz, an alchemist at HDG Enterprizes in Jena, and I would like to invite you to join me in sampling the delicacies my hotel prepared.

Rochford, alias Harriette Wilson, so liberally eulogises, in her Memoirs, a parent whose purity of principle is so much in accordance with the exquisite delicacy of her accomplished daughter.

All at once the two friends lowered their voices, and out of delicacy I withdrew further.

Shal hushed him by reminding him that horsemeat was undoubtedly a delicacy in these parts.

Neither in sonority nor in delicacy of tonal resource were the Egyptian instruments a tenth part as stimulating as those of to-day.

Tonight, darling Ketmia, you will sample delicacies to make the angels envious.

Was it really Aunt April with her soft hair dressed in fleecy Parisian curls, the carefree bite of autumn in her cheeks, her lilac-colored pelisse giving a lilylike delicacy to her spare frame rather than bluntly exposing it?