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delicacy
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Delicacy \Del"i*ca*cy\, n.; pl. Delicacies. [From Delicate, a.]
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The state or condition of being delicate; agreeableness to the senses; delightfulness; as, delicacy of flavor, of odor, and the like.
What choice to choose for delicacy best.
--Milton. Nicety or fineness of form, texture, or constitution; softness; elegance; smoothness; tenderness; and hence, frailty or weakness; as, the delicacy of a fiber or a thread; delicacy of a hand or of the human form; delicacy of the skin; delicacy of frame.
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Nice propriety of manners or conduct; susceptibility or tenderness of feeling; refinement; fastidiousness; and hence, in an exaggerated sense, effeminacy; as, great delicacy of behavior; delicacy in doing a kindness; delicacy of character that unfits for earnest action.
You know your mother's delicacy in this point.
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Addiction to pleasure; luxury; daintiness; indulgence; luxurious or voluptuous treatment.
And to those dainty limbs which Nature lent For gentle usage and soft delicacy?
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Nice and refined perception and discrimination; critical niceness; fastidious accuracy.
That Augustan delicacy of taste which is the boast of the great public schools of England.
--Macaulay. The state of being affected by slight causes; sensitiveness; as, the delicacy of a chemist's balance.
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That which is alluring, delicate, or refined; a luxury or pleasure; something pleasant to the senses, especially to the sense of taste; a dainty; as, delicacies of the table.
The merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies.
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Pleasure; gratification; delight. [Obs.]
He Rome brent for his delicacie.
--Chaucer.Syn: See Dainty.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., "delightfulness; fastidiousness; quality of being addicted to sensuous pleasure," from delicate + -cy. Meaning "fineness, softness, tender loveliness" is from 1580s; that of "weakness of constitution" is from 1630s. Meaning "fine food, a dainty viand" is from early 15c.
Wiktionary
n. 1 The quality of being delicate. 2 Something appealing, usually a pleasing food, especially a choice dish of a certain culture suggesting rarity and refinement -''a Chinese delicacy'' 3 fineness or elegance of construction or appearance. 4 frailty of health or fitness. 5 refinement in taste or discrimination. 6 tact and propriety; the need for such tact.
WordNet
n. the quality of being beautiful and delicate in appearance; "the daintiness of her touch"; "the fineness of her features" [syn: daintiness, fineness]
something considered choice to eat [syn: dainty, goody, kickshaw, treat]
refined taste; tact [syn: discretion]
smallness of stature [syn: slightness]
lack of physical strength [syn: fragility]
subtly skillful handling of a situation [syn: diplomacy, discreetness, finesse]
lightness in movement or manner [syn: airiness]
Wikipedia
Delicacy is a 2011 French romantic comedy-drama directed by David and Stéphane Foenkinos based on a novel of the same name by David Foenkinos. David was nominated for the 2012 Best Writing (Adaptation) César Award and the film was nominated as Best First Film.
A delicacy is a usually rare or expensive food item that is considered highly desirable, sophisticated or peculiarly distinctive, within a given culture. Irrespective of local preferences, such a label is typically pervasive throughout a region. Often this is because of unusual flavors or characteristics or because it is rare or expensive compared to standard staple foods.
Delicacies vary per different countries, customs and ages. Flamingo tongue was a highly prized dish in ancient Rome, but is not eaten at all in modern times. Lobsters were considered poverty food in North America until the mid-19th century when they started being treated, as they were in Europe, as a delicacy. Some delicacies are confined to a certain culture, such as fugu in Japan, bird's nest soup (made out of swiftlet nests) in China, and ant larvae ( escamoles) in Mexico.
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?