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delicacy

noun as in delicious, gourmet food

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Not content to just mass-produce lab-grown fish fillets, it has focused on developing prized delicacies, especially fish maw.

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Enjoy the local delicacy with this summery cocktail that uses TINCUP’s bourbon, which is aged for 10 years.

It was a delicacy from the gods in order to not go to sleep hungry, which is one of the worst sensations in life.

She next took on four papers that had been rapidly published early in 2020, two of them in Nature, describing viruses in pangolins—endangered scale-covered mammals sometimes eaten as delicacies in China—that shared similarities to SARS-CoV-2.

The latter work’s delicacy, typical of Yamaguchi’s style, is infused here with new urgency.

At the time, the island had not yet been named after the delicacy, and went by the decidedly less fantastical Twickenham Ait.

C, lastly, I just think [Perritaz] has a natural taste for purity, delicacy, and ethereal balance.

His hilarious parody-fable, “A Dissertation Upon Roast Pig,” traces the supposed genesis of that culinary delicacy.

In their scenes, there is delicacy, there is love, and there is hope.

St. Peter Damian damned her for “excessive delicacy” in preferring such a rarefied implement to her God-given hands.

Flowers, fruits, and insects were her favorite subjects, and were painted with rare delicacy.

I think that he had more virtuosity, and yet more delicacy of feeling, than either Rubinstein or Blow.

The officer, with less delicacy of attention to the supposed slumbers of an invalid, followed him.

Many of these pipes are sculptured from the most obdurate stones and display great delicacy of workmanship.

He evidently avoided taking a share in the discussion of his Transatlantic career, probably from delicacy to his English auditor.

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On this page you'll find 125 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to delicacy, such as: elegance, fragility, lightness, subtlety, tenderness, and airiness.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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