delicacy
Example Sentences
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Edible snails - or escargot - are a French delicacy, usually cooked in garlic butter or wine before being extracted from their shell.
From BBC
The smell of burgers, brats and other grilled delicacies wafted through the air as children played football on the grass and a nearby patch of dirt.
From Los Angeles Times
With those things in mind, Capote carefully describes each mouth-watering delicacy as if filling a stage set.
Possibly that is a means by which on such days as Friday they convey vividly their mixture of messages, of beauty, fragility, delicacy and impermanence.
From Washington Post
The 6-year-old giraffe at the Maryland Zoo in Baltimore would eagerly reach her long neck to be fed a giraffe delicacy — acacia leaves.
From Washington Post
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