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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Delicatessen \Del`i*ca*tes"sen\, n. pl. [G., fr. F. d['e]licatesse.]
Relishes for the table; dainties; delicacies. ``A dealer in delicatessen''.
--G. H. Putnam.ready-to-eat foods, such as cold cuts, cooked meats, and prepared salads.
sing.; pl. delicatessens. a store or section of a store where delicatessen[2] is sold. ``Get a sandwich for lunch at the delicatessen counter.''
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1889, American English, from German delikatessen, plural of delikatesse "a delicacy, fine food," from French délicatesse (1560s), from délicat "fine," from Latin delicatus (see delicate).
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context countable English) A shop that sells cooked or prepared foods ready for serving. 2 (context plural only English) delicacies; exotic or expensive foods.
WordNet
n. ready-to-eat food products [syn: delicatessen food]
a shop selling delicatessen (as salads or cooked meats) [syn: deli, food shop]
Wikipedia
A delicatessen or deli is a retail establishment that sells a selection of unusual or foreign prepared foods. Delicatessens originated in Germany during the 1700s and spread to the United States in the mid-1800s. European immigrants to the United States, especially Ashkenazi Jews, popularized the delicatessen in American culture beginning in the late 1800s.
Delicatessen is a 1991 French film, directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro, starring Dominique Pinon and Karin Viard. It is set in an apartment building in a post-apocalyptic France of an ambiguous time period. The story focuses on the tenants of the building and their desperate bids to survive. Among these characters is the newly arrived Louison, who arrives to replace a tenant whose reason for departure is initially unclear. The butcher, Clapet, is the leader of the group who strives to keep control and balance in the apartment building.
It is largely a character-based film, with much of the interest being gained from each tenant's own particular idiosyncrasies and their relationships to each other.
Released in North America with the supertitle Terry Gilliam presents, the film—like its successor The City of Lost Children (1995)—is a deliberate homage to Gilliam.
Delicatessen was an indie-rock group formed in Leicester, England in the early 1990s. They released three albums and four singles before splitting in 1998.
Delicatessen is a term for fine food.
It may also refer to:
- Delicatessen (film), a 1991 French black comedy film;
- Delicatessen (band), an English indie-rock group;
- Delikatessen (album), an album by the German band Oomph!.
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.