Store selling cold cuts

Usage examples of delicatessen.

A cake shop, Ernestine supposed, was some sort of retail food business like a bakeshop or delicatessen stand, and cake seemed to her almost as elementally necessary to mankind as washing or liquor.

I draw the line at attempted baking, though, so I bought a couple of slices of cheesecake from the Harehills Delicatessen to serve as dessert.

Even clogged with traffic, it retains a feel of the fifties with its delicatessens and cosily shabby restaurants.

Skyscrapers and shanties, discos and delicatessens, shwarma and slivovitz, synagogues and mosques.

Hardware shops, delicatessens, supermarkets, more restaurants, two dry cleaners, laundries, candy and toy stores.

He drove slowly past a couple of blocks of cocktail lounges, cheap bars, adult movie theaters and bookstores, boutiques, pawnshops, and shuttered delicatessens.

Chinese girls with long hair and black stockings carried metal pots into Ernie's Delicatessen for bean cake, barbequed duck, Chinese curds and steamed rice.

During Herbert's period of unemployment the two of us committed two medium-sized burglaries of delicatessen stores and one big juicy one -- a furrier's: the spoils were three blue foxes, a sealskin, a Persian lamb muff, and a pretty, though not enormously valuable, pony coat.

Abe Teitlebaum, Cohen muscle goon, owns a delicatessen that features greasy sandwiches named after Borscht Belt comedians, and Lee Vachss, Mr.

What he had known as an autoparts dealer's next door, with a sparse assortment of gaskets, fan belts, cans, and tools clipped to a pegboard behind its dusty window, was a busy delicatessen.

Warehouses and tired tenements, fire escapes and delicatessens, and a few blocks away the art galleries and coffee houses and lofts crowded with artists and writers, sculptors and poets, beards and bandannas.

Guests had the option of breakfasting in their rooms or taking an elevator to the lobby and walking to a nearby French pastry shop or a British-style delicatessen.

The Porsche jumped the curb, plowed through a stack of black plastic garbage bags, and crashed through the plate glass window of a small delicatessen that was closed for the night.

Having bought some home-made pate and a side of smoked salmon from a delicatessen in the High Street, Kitty drove past the russet houses of the Close, peering out behind their fans of magnolia grandiflora, and, parking her car, popped in to the cathedral.

Finally I did buy a kidney pie, but I had to go to the delicatessen section.