delicatesse

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She is a young lady now, delicatesse, consommé, and all the rest of it in a refined way, and I don't want to show myself to her in such an abject state.

From The Chorus Girl and Other Stories by Garnett, Constance

I have no delicatesse as a diplomat, but I go blind on Libertad!

From The Book of Humorous Verse by Wells, Carolyn

To fuse within themselves its rules precise and delicatesse?

From Leaves of Grass by Whitman, Walt

Fear grace, elegance, civilization, delicatesse, Fear the mellow sweet, the sucking of honey juice, Beware the advancing mortal ripening of Nature, Beware what precedes the decay of the ruggedness of states and men.

From The Patriotic Poems of Walt Whitman by Whitman, Walt

No, I am afraid it will not," said Madame Mohl, "for remember we are en froid, not merely en delicatesse.

From Story of My Life, volumes 1-3 by Hare, Augustus J. C.