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delicacy

[del-i-kuh-see] / ˈdɛl ɪ kə si /




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Delicacy mixes with pungency, courtesy a veteran Ivesian.

From New York Times • Jun. 5, 2020

Delicacy and sweetness are supplicating, but true fury is profound.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 15, 2018

Pig Pen Delicacy is known for its outrageous creations.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 28, 2017

They had made money and they still own Delicacy.

From Washington Post • Nov. 30, 2015

These Gentlemen have the Equipages of Ambassadors, with magnificent Houses and Gardens; and they often make Treats with the utmost Delicacy and Splendor.

From The Memoirs of Charles-Lewis, Baron de Pollnitz, Volume III Being the Observations He Made in His Late Travels from Prussia thro' Germany, Italy, France, Flanders, Holland, England, &C. in Letters to His Friend. Discovering Not Only the Present State of the Chief Cities and Towns; but the Characters of the Principal Persons at the Several Courts. by P?llnitz, Karl Ludwig von




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